Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Vicente Vérez-Bencomo

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  Evaluation Strategy to Support the Introduction the New Cuban Conjugated Pneumococcal Vaccine in the National Health System
  Author(s): Nivaldo Linares-Pérez1*, María E. Toledo-Romaní2, Daryelis Santana Mederos1, Yury Valdés-Balbín1, Dagmar García-Rivera1, Vicente Vérez-Bencomo1 Nivaldo Linares-Pérez1*, María E. Toledo-Romaní2, Daryelis Santana Mederos1, Yury Valdés-Balbín1, Dagmar García-Rivera1, Vicente Vérez-Bencomo1
  
  Objective: To present the evaluation framework supporting the clinical, epidemiological and impact studies to introduce the new Cuban conjugated pneumococcal vaccine in the national vaccination program. Methods: The design of the evaluation strategy of the new vaccine in the Cuban included: the revision of the scientific evidence available in literature, the definition of the evaluation objectives, the application of conceptual and methodological evaluation frame, the performance of the process to generate the new scientific evidences about the new vaccine. The regulatory frame for the evaluation and introduction of new PCVs were taken into consideration during the whole process. Results: The background of licensed pneumococcal vaccine with similarly based studies was synthetized. The evaluation strategy of the Cuban vac.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7560.1000385

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