Comparing the Use of a Mobile App and a Web-Based Notification Platform for Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Influenza Immunization: Randomized Controlled Trial

A Brianne Bota   ¹ , PhD ;   Julie A Bettinger   ² , MPH, PhD ;   Shirley Sarfo-Mensah   ¹ , MPH ;   Jimmy Lopez   ² , BSc ;   David P Smith   ¹ , MCogSc ;   Katherine M Atkinson   ³ , BSc ;   Cameron Bell   ⁴ , BEng ;   Kim Marty   ² , BSc ;   Mohamed Serhan   ¹ , BSc, HBsc ;   David T Zhu   ^{1, 5} , BSc ;   Anne E McCarthy   ⁶ , MD, MSc, DTM&H ;   Kumanan Wilson   ^{1, 4, 6, 7} , MD, MSc

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

² Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada

³ Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

⁴ CanImmunize Inc, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁵ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada