PMID- 37750613 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231207 LR - 20240125 IS - 1744-8395 (Electronic) IS - 1476-0584 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 1 DP - 2023 Jan-Dec TI - Harmonizing the collection of solicited adverse events in prophylactic vaccine clinical trials. PG - 849-859 LID - 10.1080/14760584.2023.2262571 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: During the clinical development of a vaccine, study participants are monitored for the occurrence of adverse events (AEs) over a defined period post-vaccination to assess the safety of prophylactic vaccines. Among the safety data collected, a standard practice in prophylactic vaccine clinical trials involves collecting reactogenicity data through daily AE solicitation of pre-defined sets of symptoms (i.e. solicited AEs). AREAS COVERED: This paper aims to propose recommendations to improve and harmonize the collection of active AE solicitation in prophylactic vaccine clinical trials. EXPERT OPINION: We recommend using limited lists of solicited AEs adapted to the vaccine technology and target population. While the US Food and Drug Administration toxicity grading scale is commonly used in adolescents/adults, harmonizing grading criteria in infants/children would facilitate the comparison of vaccines' safety profiles. Solicited systemic AEs should not systematically be considered causally related to vaccination. Collection of solicited AEs should occur in cohorts of a maximum of 1,000 vaccinated participants, as larger cohort sizes do not improve substantially the precision of AE incidence. The incidence of daily solicited AEs should be compared with a control group for improved interpretations of their clinical relevance. These suggestions would improve the characterization of safety profiles of vaccines. FAU - Cheuvart, Brigitte AU - Cheuvart B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7156-0062 AD - Clinical Research and Development, GSK, Wavre, Belgium. FAU - Spiessens, Bart AU - Spiessens B AD - Statistics and Decision Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium. FAU - van Heesbeen, Roy AU - van Heesbeen R AD - Clinical Development, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, Leiden, Netherlands. FAU - Hung, Derchieh AU - Hung D AD - Clinical Development, Seqirus, Melbourne, Australia. FAU - Andrade, Coralie AU - Andrade C AD - Clinical Development, Seqirus, Melbourne, Australia. FAU - Korejwo-Peyramond, Joanna AU - Korejwo-Peyramond J AD - Patient Safety & Pharmacovigilance, Sanofi, Lyon, France. FAU - Tavares-Da-Silva, Fernanda AU - Tavares-Da-Silva F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5433-8064 AD - Clinical Research and Development, GSK, Wavre, Belgium. AD - Global Pharmacovigilance and Safety Science department, Organon, Brussels, Belgium. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20231009 PL - England TA - Expert Rev Vaccines JT - Expert review of vaccines JID - 101155475 RN - 0 (Vaccines) SB - IM MH - Child MH - Infant MH - Adult MH - Adolescent MH - United States MH - Humans MH - *Vaccines MH - Vaccination/adverse effects MH - United States Food and Drug Administration MH - Incidence OTO - NOTNLM OT - Prophylactic OT - reactogenicity OT - severity grading system OT - solicited adverse event OT - vaccine clinical trial EDAT- 2023/09/26 13:42 MHDA- 2023/12/07 12:43 CRDT- 2023/09/26 08:32 PHST- 2023/12/07 12:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/26 13:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/26 08:32 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/14760584.2023.2262571 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Expert Rev Vaccines. 2023 Jan-Dec;22(1):849-859. doi: 10.1080/14760584.2023.2262571. Epub 2023 Oct 9.