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The choice of analytical methodology can alter conclusions regarding herd effects of paediatric pneumococcal vaccination programmes.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Estimation of the magnitude of the herd effect on invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is important when evaluating health benefits and cost-effectiveness of paediatric pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) programmes and may influence policy makers' decisions on PCV use. Several epidemiological, programmatic, and immunological factors can affect the magnitude of the PCV herd effect. We investigated to what extent the choice of analytical methodology may also influence herd effect estimates. METHODS:To estimate the magnitude of the herd effect from paediatric PCV programmes, we examined overall IPD incidence rates in ≥65-year-olds from Finland, Australia, England/Wales, and the United States under different analytical scenarios. We used two different statistical methods: before/after comparison of average IPD incidence rates and interrupted time series (ITS) analysis accounting for underlying time trends. We also investigated how varying the length of the pre- and post-PCV analysis periods influenced the outcomes. RESULTS:The estimated impact of paediatric PCV programmes on IPD incidence rates in adults ≥65 years varied substantially across the different scenarios within each country. The choice of statistical method and analysis periods contributed to this variation, and their influence varied by setting. For the datasets from England/Wales and the United States, the different scenarios produced relatively minor variation in estimated impact. For the Australian and Finnish datasets, differences were more prominent. In particular, for Finland, opposite conclusions could be drawn depending on the methodology: while no estimated herd effect was seen with the before/after method, a herd effect was evident with the ITS method. CONCLUSIONS:The choice of statistical method and analysis periods can substantially influence the magnitude of estimated herd effects from paediatric PCV programmes. It is important to consider the reliability and presence of pre-PCV patterns in the IPD surveillance data used for analysis, the methodology and associated assumptions used to estimate herd effects.

journal_name

Vaccine

journal_title

Vaccine

authors

Pirçon JY,Talarico CA,Bollaerts K,Hausdorff WP,Clarke CJ

doi

10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.10.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-12 00:00:00

pages

6933-6943

issue

eissn

0264-410X

issn

1873-2518

pii

S0264-410X(18)31355-0

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The choice of analytical methodology can alter conclusions regarding herd effects of paediatric pneumococcal vaccination programmes.