Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States.
Vaccine. 2024 Sep 17;42(22):126005. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.05.053. Epub 2024 May 27.
As dozens of new National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) were established worldwide in the past decade, and as existing NITAGs continued to play an important role in vaccine policy, global NITAG partners recognized a need for a standardized assessment tool to evaluate and strengthen their functions. This article describes the development of the NITAG Maturity Assessment Tool (NMAT), a stepwise evaluation tool that assesses NITAGs on seven key indicators of structure and process. A draft tool was developed through an iterative, consensus-based process with an expert working group before it was piloted with an economically and geographically diverse convenience sample of NITAGs. The final NMAT is a flexible tool that can be used by in-country or external evaluators to understand NITAG maturity, identify priorities for optimization, and measure the impact of strengthening efforts.
在过去十年中，全球范围内成立了数十个新的国家免疫技术咨询小组（NITAG），并且随着现有 NITAG 继续在疫苗政策中发挥重要作用，全球 NITAG 合作伙伴认识到需要一种标准化的评估工具来评估和加强其功能。本文描述了 NITAG 成熟度评估工具（NMAT）的开发，这是一种逐步评估工具，可通过七个关键的结构和过程指标来评估 NITAG。在对经济和地理上多样化的 NITAG 便利样本进行试点之前，通过专家工作组的迭代、共识过程制定了一份工具草案。最终的 NMAT 是一种灵活的工具，可由国内或外部评估人员使用，以了解 NITAG 的成熟度，确定优化的优先事项，并衡量加强工作的影响。
