Although quantitative benefit-risk models (qBRm) applied to vaccines are increasingly used as an important tool to help decision makers with supporting benefit-risk assessment, many publications on vaccine qBRm provide insufficient details on the methodological approaches used.

The aim of the present paper is to provide an operational checklist for improved reporting of vaccine qBRm in scientific articles: the consolidated standards of reporting quantitative Benefit-RIsk models applied to VACcines (BRIVAC) checklist.

The BRIVAC checklist is intended to (1) assist authors in adequately reporting qBRm methodologies and results, (2) support editors and peer reviewers when considering such articles for publication and (3) help readers in their critical appraisal.