Brighton Collaboration Case Definitions

Brighton Collaboration Case Definitions

Brighton Collaboration Case Definitions are intended to:

  1. Harmonize collection and analysis of vaccine safety data throughout the vaccine life cycle and across diverse resource settings.

  2. Enable classifying cases across a range of diagnostic certainty from definite (level 1) to probable (level 2) to possible cases (level 3).

  3. Provide a definition that can be applied equally to immunized and non-immunized individuals and thus are suited for use in:

    • Determining background incidence of events of interest
    • Causality hypothesis testing studies

Brighton Collaboration Case Definitions are not intended to guide clinical case management.

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Case definitions developed by SPEAC:

See the case definitions for the adverse events of special interest developed by the CEPI-funded SPEAC project below:
Only show AESIs relevant to these pathogens:
Only show AESIs relevant to these vaccine platforms:

The list above is limited and only showing the CDs developed by the CEPI-funded SPEAC project. For those who want to have a ready link to all available CDs by pathogen or platform, they can access them via the AESI list section or see all the existing CDs using the button below.