The Clinician’s Vaccine Safety Resource Guide: Optimizing Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Across the Lifespan improves the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical vaccine discussions with patients. It’s an ideal resource for all clinicians and their healthcare teams administering vaccines.

Each topic, from specific vaccines to safety concerns, is covered succinctly, based upon systematic reviews of the scientific literature, with highlights to support discussions with patients.

This guidebook includes summaries of:

• All recommended vaccines
• The disease the vaccines prevent
• Up-to-date recommendations and contraindications
• The science assessing potential vaccine safety issues
• A description of the U.S. vaccine safety system
• Guidelines for providers on how to use its recommended evidence-based strategy for effective vaccine communication with patients (only available in the downloadable version)

The organization of the guidebook makes it easy to reference specific topics and to quickly find pertinent information with the most practical details—such as recommendations and causality conclusions—featured at the very beginning of the respective sections.

The downloadable version of the guidebook and the corresponding content on the IVS website are updated regularly as the science evolves so you always have access to the most up-to-date information.