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The problem
Intervention: Measles vaccination
Who it was tested with: Children in Romania; the cases presented were those who contracted measles before vaccination or without vaccination.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Its incidence is negatively correlated with measles vaccination coverage" and "Following a 10-year SSPE-free period, the reappearance of these pediatric cases constitutes a public health alert, unequivocally demonstrating the importance of measles vaccination." The cluster of SSPE cases following a vaccination gap demonstrates the protective effect of measles immunisation programmes in preventing this fatal complication.
Retrospective case series from single hospital with no comparison group; does not provide population-level vaccination coverage data or denominators to calculate incidence rates; outcomes limited to disease progression during hospital observation.
Across countries and designs
3 studies · 3 countries
