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Australia needs an expanded immunisation register

Allen C Cheng, Carmel M Hobbs and Priscilla M Robinson
MJA 2008; 188 (4): 263

To the Editor: We agree wholeheartedly with Skull and Nolan’s call for a lifetime immunisation register to enhance monitoring of coverage, provide a clinical support service and provide data for program evaluation.1 An expanded register could also provide information on the vaccine coverage for childhood diseases that may increasingly affect adults (such as varicella and measles), for immigrants who may receive childhood vaccines after childhood, and for occupational groups (eg, influenza vaccine for health care workers).

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