TY - JOUR T1 - Why doctors should convey the medical consensus on vaccine safety JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 119 LP - 119 DO - 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110435 VL - 21 IS - 3 AU - Sander van der Linden Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/21/3/119.abstract N2 - Public confidence in vaccination is crucial to the success of immunisation programmes worldwide. Yet, growing vaccine hesitancy and refusal poses serious risks to public health. For example, a recent study found that although outright refusal is still relatively uncommon, in a typical month, over 90% of surveyed US physicians receive requests to delay childhood vaccines.1What is troubling is that most parental concerns about vaccine safety are based on influential misperceptions. Indeed, numerous studies have found that continued belief in the long discredited link between vaccines and autism significantly undermines public confidence in … ER -