RESUMO
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The VICP went into effect on October 1, 1988 and is a Federal "no-fault" system designed to compensate individuals, or families of individuals, who have been injured by covered vaccines. From 1988 until July 2006, a total of 2531 non-autism/thimerosal and 5030 autism/thimerosal claims were made to the VICP. The compensation paid for the non-autism/thimerosal claims from 1988 until 2006 was $902,519,103.37 for 2542 awards. There was no compensation for any of the autism/thimerosal claims. On the basis of the deaths and extensive suffering to patients and families from the adverse reactions to vaccines, all physicians must provide detailed information in the Vaccine Information Statement to the patient or the parent or legal guardian of the child about the potential dangers of vaccines as well as the VICP.
Assuntos
Compensação e Reparação/legislação & jurisprudência , Conservantes Farmacêuticos/efeitos adversos , Timerosal/efeitos adversos , Vacinas/efeitos adversos , Adolescente , Transtorno Autístico/induzido quimicamente , Transtorno Autístico/economia , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Humanos , Lactente , Programas Obrigatórios/legislação & jurisprudência , Vacinação em Massa/efeitos adversos , Vacinação em Massa/legislação & jurisprudência , Educação de Pacientes como Assunto/legislação & jurisprudência , Direitos do Paciente , Timerosal/economia , Revelação da Verdade , Estados Unidos , Vacinas/economiaRESUMO
Because many physicians do not use the Vaccine Information Statement (VIS), we created a revised statement that would alert the physician to the need to use the VIS. Even though the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) coordinated this evaluation, both the CDC and most of the State Board of Medical Examiners did not support this revision of the VIS. Despite the disinterest of the vast majority of the State Board of Medical Examiners, we would recommend that this updated VIS be implemented immediately to educate our society on the information in the VIS.
