Standard VAERS subpopulations

The Signal Management feature of Oracle Empirica Signal reports the results of statistical analysis of all records in the VAERS database. It also reports the results of statistical analysis performed only on reports with certain shared characteristics; for example, reports involving elderly individuals only, or reports with a fatal outcome only.

To identify different subpopulations and types of cases in the VAERS database, a set of standard queries is supplied and then used as database restrictions in data mining runs.

The standard subpopulations or types of cases used for Signal Management are:

Population	Default Query
Adult	AGE_GROUP_6 equals '18_64'
Elderly	AGE_GROUP_6 equals '65_above'
Fatal	Outcome - Died equals 'YES'
Female	Sex equals 'F'
Male	Sex equals 'M'
Pediatric	AGE_GROUP_6 equals ‘00_01’ or ’02_05’ or ‘06_17’
Serious	Serious equals 'Y'