Publications by authors named "Sunhea S Kim"
Background: Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) accounts for more than half of all claims received by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. However, due to the difficulty of finding SIRVA cases in large health care databases, population-based studies are scarce.
Objective: The goal of the research was to develop a natural language processing (NLP) method to identify SIRVA cases from clinical notes.
Article Synopsis
- - The study explores the risk of shoulder conditions following intramuscular vaccinations, particularly in the deltoid muscle, using data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California between April 2016 and December 2017.
- - Out of over 3.7 million vaccinations, only 371 cases of shoulder conditions were identified, leading to an estimated incidence rate of 0.99 per 10,000 vaccinations, with higher risks noted in adults, especially women and older individuals.
- - Factors associated with increased risk included advanced age, female sex, specific vaccines, and simultaneous administration of vaccines among the elderly, indicating that certain populations may be more vulnerable to these shoulder issues post-vaccination.