Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2019;15(12):2844-2846. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1625647. Epub 2019 Jun 20.
Vaccination cards are useful health records that contain information about vaccination dates and dosage. This information is helpful for parents, vaccination providers, and public health researchers. However, as they currently are structured, many vaccination cards are very difficult to read by non-experts, like parents, and even by health-care providers. Many families also lose these vaccination cards; among the top 10 countries with the most unvaccinated children, the proportion of families who were able to find their vaccination cards and give them to researchers was low, ranging from 20.7% in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 69.2% in South Africa. Moreover, some families report that not having a vaccination card during a vaccination visit resulted in them being unable to obtain a vaccine (8% in one study in Ethiopia and 16% in one study in Bangladesh). This commentary provides recommendations about how vaccination cards should be used by parents, health-care providers, and researchers, and comments on their continued relevance in an era with increased use of electronic registries.
疫苗接种卡是有用的健康记录，其中包含疫苗接种日期和剂量的信息。这些信息对家长、疫苗接种提供者和公共卫生研究人员都很有帮助。然而，由于它们目前的结构，许多疫苗接种卡对于非专业人士（如家长）甚至医疗保健提供者来说都很难读懂。许多家庭也会丢失这些疫苗接种卡；在儿童未接种疫苗比例最高的前 10 个国家中，能够找到并将疫苗接种卡交给研究人员的家庭比例较低，从刚果民主共和国的 20.7%到南非的 69.2%不等。此外，一些家庭报告说，在接种疫苗时没有疫苗接种卡，导致他们无法获得疫苗（埃塞俄比亚的一项研究中为 8%，孟加拉国的一项研究中为 16%）。本评论就如何使用疫苗接种卡提出了一些建议，包括父母、医疗保健提供者和研究人员的使用建议，并对在电子登记册使用日益增加的时代，这些卡的持续相关性进行了评论。
