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VAC4EU Academy

Capacity building
General resource

VAC4EU is committed to training a unique community of vaccine experts. To this end, the VAC4EU Academy provides practical, regularly updated online training on detailed...

VAC4EU GitHub 

Results pooling
General resource

Scientific integrity is a core value of VAC4EU. Although the original data from the RWD sources always remains confidential, publicly sharingR scripts produced throughout the...

Event Definition Forms 

Semantic harmonisation

In a pharmacoepidemiology study involving secondary use of electronic healthcare databases, researchers need standardised definitions of the adverse events of special interests (AESI) they are...

VAC4EU Code List 

Semantic harmonisation

In Europe, the diversity of medical coding systems used in electronic health data creates significant challenges in defining and retrieving study variables consistently across datasets....

CodeMapper 

Semantic harmonisation

In electronic healthcare databases the coding systems used to specify diagnoses, procedures and treatments in encounters are often different. CodeMapper was developed during ADVANCE as...

ConcePTION Pregnancy Algorithm 

Semantic harmonisation

Some RWE studies may require the identification of pregnancies in the extracted population. The ConcePTION Pregnancy Algorithm was designed during the ConcePTION project to retrieve...

INSIGHT Quality Checks 

Semantic harmonisation

Before a VAC4EU RWE study can be conducted, the DEAPs need to ensure the RWD source is well-suited to answer the research question, via Quality...

ConcePTION Common Data Model (CDM)

Syntactic harmonisation

In RWE studies, Data Expert & Access Partners (DEAPs) need to align their data into a common structure using a CDM. This allows programmers to...

VAC4EU Catalogue

General resource

There is a need to characterise and describe the RWD sources in the VAC4EU network to align with standards and guidelines on transparency. This also...

AnDREa 

Results pooling

During the analysis and post-processing stage of the VAC4EU pipeline, the study teams require a secure, web-based environment to carry out their collaboration. As VAC4EU...