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A VIS or Vaccine Information Statement is a document, produced by CDC, that informs vaccine recipients – or their parents or legal representatives – about the benefits and risks of a vaccine they are receiving.

Read about the evolution and history of Vaccine Information Statements [5 pages].

All vaccine providers, public or private, are required by the National Vaccine Childhood Injury Act (NCVIA – 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-26 [2 pages]) to give the appropriate VIS to the patient (or parent or legal representative) prior to every dose of specific vaccines.

The appropriate VIS must be given prior to the vaccination, and must be given prior to each dose of a multi-dose series. It must be given regardless of the age of the recipient. See “Ways to give a VIS“.

Patients must still be offered a copy of the VIS to take away following the vaccination. The patient may decline.

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CDC maintains a current English language VIS for each vaccine. You and your patients can

VISs have been translated into about 40 languages. These can be found on the website of CDC’s partner, the Immunization Action Coalition. Not every VIS has been translated into every language.

In addition to distributing VISs, as described above, providers are required to record specific information in the patient’s medical record (which can include an electronic medical record), or in a permanent office log:

Providers may add the name, address, and contact information of their practice to an existing VIS, but may not make any substantive changes.

In addition to providing a VIS to patients to read, you can

or help recipients understand the disease and vaccine in any other way.

Always offer the patient an opportunity to ask questions about the vaccine you are giving them.

VISs for these vaccines are required under the NCVIA, as of March 2013:

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