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The 36th National Immunization Conference of CDC |
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The 36th National Immunization Conference of CDC |
Silver Room (Tower Building) (Adam's Mark Hotel)
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C5: Selecting Vaccines for Your Formulary: Tools for Purchasing Decisions | |||
| Existing and new antigens are being combined into an array of vaccines to reduce the number of required injections. But these new products contain overlapping, non-complementary antigens of which not all are needed to satisfactorily immunize children. Speakers will describe and demonstrate live a web-based algorithm tool developed under CDC contract (www.vaccineselection.com) to select formularies of monovalent and combination vaccines that satisfy the recommended childhood immunization schedule at the most economical cost. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to explain the principles upon which the selection algorithm is based and to use their own internet access to solve for lowest-cost formularies with their particular criteria and costs.
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| Moderator: | Bruce G. Weniger | ||
| 10:30 AM | Introductory Remarks | ||
| 10:40 AM | 237 | Monte Carlo Simulation to Determine Price Distributions of Combination Vaccines for Childhood Diseases Sheldon H. Jacobson, Edward C. Sewell, Bruce G. Weniger | |
| 11:10 AM | 204 | Software Tool to Assemble Economical Formularies of Pediatric Vaccines Enrique A. Medina, Daniel A. Allwine, Edward C. Sewell, Sheldon H. Jacobson, Bruce G. Weniger | |
| 11:40 AM | Discussion | ||