Monitoring the safety of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy in the UK : A national study using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), UK Teratology Information Service (UKTIS) and Vaccination in Pregnancy (VIP) safety monitoring systems

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Background: COVID-19 vaccines are protective against disease. Pregnant women benefit from vaccination as they are at higher risk of poor maternal and neonatal outcomes following infection.

Methods: Following regulatory approval of two COVID-19 vaccines in the United Kingdom, a rapid national study of vaccination in pregnancy was instituted using three existing safety surveillance platforms: UKOSS, UKTIS and VIP. This preliminary report describes the data collected up to the 15th June 2021.

Results: There were 971 reports of COVID-19 vaccination in the UKOSS/UKTIS (n = 493) and VIP (n = 478) monitoring systems describing 908 individual pregnancies. Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccination was most common (n = 501, 55.2%), most women were vaccinated in their second or third trimester (n = 566, 62.3%), and were mainly vaccinated due to occupational infection risk (n = 577, 63.5%).

Conclusion: Obstetric outcome data will be obtained by December 2021. However, women should not delay vaccination whilst awaiting further safety data to emerge.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Obstetric medicine - 16(2023), 1 vom: 17. März, Seite 40-47

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Richardson, Jonathan L [VerfasserIn]
Stephens, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Chappell, Lucy C [VerfasserIn]
Campbell, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Amirthalingam, Gayatri [VerfasserIn]
O'Boyle, Shennae [VerfasserIn]
Bukasa, Antoaneta [VerfasserIn]
Knight, Marian [VerfasserIn]
Hodson, Kenneth K [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 vaccine
Journal Article
Obstetric surveillance
Pharmacovigilance
Pregnancy
SARS-coV-2
Teratology
Vaccination

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Date Revised 02.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/1753495X221076713

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356281493