[Results of a computerized vaccination database].
OBJECTIVE: To analyze vaccine coverage in children from Picassent in Valencia (Spain) and to evaluate the effectiveness of a new computerized vaccine registration program. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A computer equipped with our self-made Babyvac-2000 program, based on Microsoft Access was used. The 2,514 entries on children in our database were examined. The results were compared with those in other population groups. RESULTS: Uptake was high: 100 % in 12 of the 15 age groups (according to year of birth). Coverage was as follows: diptheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP)-oral polio vaccine was 100 % for 9 groups; the first dose of the triple virus vaccine was 100 % in 7 groups; full vaccination was between 96.2 % and 100 % for all age groups; vaccination at 6 years was between 91.6 % and 98.7 %, the second dose of the triple virus vaccine was between 72.2 % and 96.3 %; vaccination at 14 years was between 82.9 % and 87.7 %; hepatitis B vaccination in young children (from 1994 to 2000) was 100 % in 5 groups and was between 90 % and 98 % in teenagers; the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination rate was 100 % for children born between 1998 and 2001 and was between 74.3 % and 93.5 % for those born between 1994 and 1997; meningococcal group C conjugated vaccination was between 86.8 % and 100 % for children born between 1994 and 2001. CONCLUSIONS: This computer program considerably increases uptake and vaccine coverage among children.