Table 2.
Adverse event rates in risk and comparison intervals, influenza immunizations between July 1, 2007 and March 31, 2014 for children 2–18 years of age with a history of asthma prior to the immunization, Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
Event | Group or subgroup analyzed | Interval (days)a | Number of events by type of immunization child receivedb | Events per 100 K children immunized | ||
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IIV | LAIV | IIV | LAIV | |||
Inpatient and ER asthma exacerbation visits | All | Risk | 395 | 11 | 119 | 19 |
Comparison | 389 | 22 | 118 | 39 | ||
Current or recent, persistent | Risk | 343 | 6 | 220 | 43 | |
Comparison | 340 | 9 | 218 | 64 | ||
Current or recent, not persistent | Risk | 46 | 2 | 50 | 12 | |
Comparison | 44 | 8 | 48 | 50 | ||
Remote history of asthma only | Risk | 6 | 3 | 7 | 11 | |
Comparison | 5 | 5 | 6 | 19 | ||
Outpatient asthma exacerbation visits, after chart review confirmation | All | Risk | c | 242 | c | 426 |
Comparison | c | 349 | c | 614 | ||
Current or recent, persistent | Risk | c | 129 | c | 919 | |
Comparison | c | 187 | c | 1332 | ||
Current or recent, not persistent | Risk | c | 83 | c | 514 | |
Comparison | c | 112 | c | 693 | ||
Remote history of asthma only | Risk | 211 | 30 | 257 | 113 | |
Comparison | 192 | 50 | 234 | 188 | ||
All non-asthma related visits | Risk | 51,228 | 8270 | 15,486 | 14,553 | |
Comparison | 47,633 | 7643 | 14,399 | 13,450 |
The risk interval was 1–14 days after immunization. The Comparison interval was 29–42 days after immunization. All events included here occurred in either the risk or comparison intervals in relation to immunization.
IIV: inactivated influenza vaccine; LAIV: live attenuated influenza vaccine.
Not available because chart review abstraction and confirmation was only performed for events following LAIV immunizations and for the subset of events following IIV immunization among children with remote history of asthma only.