Catch-up Calculator

Version 3.0.0

The new version (3.0.0) includes support for all children under the age of 10, including those who may have multiple medically at-risk conditions.

Health professionals can select multiple medical at-risk conditions a child may have. Of the nominated medical at-risk conditions, the NICC will pre-select a 'dominant' (sometimes referred to as the 'primary') condition using a combination of factors. Health professionals can generate a schedule for the 'dominant' condition.

Health professionals can override the selection if deemed necessary. Catch-up schedules for each of the nominated medical at-risk conditions can be generated, one at a time.

Please note that owing to the complexities with the catch-up rules, at this time, health professionals will not be able to select multiple immunocompromising conditions (say 'Haematological malignancies and 'HIV infection') and/or multiple solid organ transplants (say Heart and Lung transplant). Although less common for the under 10s cohort, we understand that this might be more common in the older cohorts. Future releases of the NICC will include support for these scenarios.

Other inclusions: 

• Removed question pertaining to 'international travel' on Step 1. Vaccination for international travel may be introduced in the future.
• Updates to the vaccines list to include newly registered vaccines such as Vaxelis.
• Minor refinements to the labels in use for the medical at-risk conditions.
• Incremental refinements to the user interface, and overall user experience.
• Upgrades to the technologies to improve performance, efficiency, and maintainability of the codebase.

Keep an eye on the Announcements page for updates to the NICC. Further information on upcoming (major) releases will be provided when they become available.

Version 2.0.11

• Fixed issue with incorrect grouping of Infanrix Hexa antigens.
• Fixed issue with minimum intervals between Hepatitis B catch-up doses.
• Minor refinements to how Cancer is displayed in the medical at-risk conditions list.
• Miscellaneous refinements and fixes.

Version 2.0.10

• Added missing 'Invalid' dose error for HIB
• Added combination vaccines commonly encountered overseas (Generic/Other). Users must toggle 'Only show NIP vaccines' to 'off' to see these.
• Minor refinements and performance improvements.

Version 2.0.9

• Fixed incorrect 23vPPV (Pneumovax) catch-up recommendations for vaccination in people with functional or anatomical asplenia), the first dose of 23vPPV (Pneumovax). Dose is now recommended at 12 months after the last dose of 13vPCV OR at 4 years of age, whichever is later.
• Rationalised and standardised the naming conventions/namespaces used in the NICC.

Version 2.0.8

• Fixed HIB maximum age error is not shown.

Version 2.0.7

• Fixed incorrect MMRV recommendations.
• Fixed Pneumococcal appointments being a few days apart from other future appointments by changing the minimum interval between primary doses from 'month/s' to 'week/s'.
• Fixed incorrect Pneumococcal recommendations for a child >5 years with cardiac disease by changing the logic which previously added a maximum age for children with specified medical conditions.
• Created grouping for DTPa, IPV (Polio), Hib and Hep B when doses are due and recommended within 4 weeks of each other. Recalculate the date for the doses based on this rule.
• Fixed incorrect labelling of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide (23vPPV) doses that were previously labelled as doses 4 of 5 and 5 of 5.
• Fixed list of medical at-risk conditions for which the 'Live vaccines' message is displayed.
• Fixed issue where invalid doses were counted towards total doses resulting in future doses being marked as at-cost.
• Removed release version and release date from Calculator pages to avoid confusion.

Version 2.0.6

• Fixed Prevenar 13 dose being incorrectly labelled as a booster for a child over 1 year old.
• Updated the at-cost disclaimer.

Version 2.0.5

• Fixed NICC excludes valid Pneumococcal doses of 'Generic/Other conjugate' vaccine.
• Fixed Labels used for DTP doses at 18m and 4y are incorrect and do not align with the Handbook. (Changed from Booster 1 and 2, to Dose 4 and 5).
• Minor refinements to the user interface (alignment of the call out/notices).

Version 2.0.4

• Vaccine brands have been removed from the presentation of NICC outputs for ease of interpretation of catch-up vaccination outputs, while further improvements are considered.

Version 2.0.3

• Updated unit of measurement for minimum intervals for Hep B (except for catch-up post HSCT) from 'month/s' to 'week/s. This change also fixes another reported issue where Hep B appointments are scheduled a few days after a future appointment. 
• Fixed incorrect MMR, MMR+V and MMRV catch-up recommendations.

Version 2.0.2

• NICC ‘excludes’ a valid dose of Pneumococcal Conjugate, and incorrectly recommends another dose.
• Oral polio excluded from the vaccine brands displayed on the catch-up schedule as it is no longer available in Australia. Oral Polio doses administered in the past can however be added by toggling the 'Only show NIP vaccines' switch to 'off'.
• NICC recommends that the second dose of MMR should be combined with Varicella.
• 'Only show NIP vaccines' toggle behaviour is not well understood. Updated the messaging about 'Generic/Other' vaccines to improve usability.
• NICC incorrectly recommends additional dose/s of Polio to a child who has previously received valid doses overseas (at schedule points different to those in the NIP).

Version 2.0.1

• Fixed max-age for MenACWY for non-Indigenous children over 2 years

Version 2.0.0

• Support for all children under the age of 10, including medically at-risk groups.
• Improved support for children who may have been vaccinated overseas.
• Smart antigen grouping on the catch-up schedule (for instance, MMR+V).
• Age-appropriate Australian vaccines displayed on the catch-up schedule.
• Age at past and future appointments.
• Refinements to the user interface, and overall user experience.
• Refinements to task model and the information regarding the person needing catch-up being asked.
• Ability to view/download the business rules which underpin the NICC (similar to the due and over due rules from the Australian Immunisation Register).
• ‘Recently updated’ alert displayed for 15 days after a change has been deployed.**

Version 1.1.5

• Minor refinements to the validation checks which evaluate each administered dose as a potential next valid dose
• Set minimum interval between previous dose of 13vPCV and dose 1 of 23vPPV to 2 months.
• Updated business logic to determine which pneumococcal polysaccharide doses were administered, and which ones are still due.

Version 1.1.4

• Updated validation for already administered doses (which can be considered potential future valid doses)

Version 1.1.3

• Updated rules for MeningococcalB and Pneumococcal

Version 1.1.2

• Improved messaging when entering duplicate vaccinations
• Fixed max-age for Pneumococcal for ATSI in NT, QLD, SA and WA
• Changed form filter min-age for Pneumovax23 to 2y

Version 1.1.1

• Updated rules and logic following the Pneumococcal updates from 1 July 2020
• Fixed max-age for Pneumococcal for Indigenous children in NT, QLD, SA and WA
• Updated min-age for Pneumovax 23 from 28d to 2y
• Fixed distinct “Generic/Other” vaccines being treated as duplicates
• Fixed sorting issues with dates being added as d/mm/yyyy or dd/m/yyyy
• Added “max-age”, “message” and “severity” attributes for rules.
• Superfluous or undefined vaccinations (i.e. vaccines not recognised by the NIP), previously being ignored are now listed with message “Excluded from catch-up calculations.”

Version 1.1

• Updated Hepatitis A catch-up schedule intervals
• Added Meningococcal B vaccination rules and vaccines
• Added Meningococcal B related notices to the schedule and PDF
• Added notice related to humanitarian migrants / refugees

Version 1.03

• Re-designed antigen mode entry.
  • Grouped vaccines with same antigen(s) for ease of use. 
  • Added ability to show/hide Australian vaccines. 
  • Added ability to show/hide vaccines based on age of the person needing catch-up.
  • Updated sort order of antigens to match the NIP schedule. 
• Refinements to the vaccine mode entry
  • Added ability to show/hide Australian vaccines. 
  • Added ability to show/hide vaccines based on age of the person needing catch-up.
  • Updated sort order of vaccines to alphabetical for ease of use. Non-Australian or Generic/Other vaccines displayed at the bottom of the list.
• Minor copy changes to overseas vaccinations question.
• Updated business logic to automatically toggle 'show Australian vaccines only' filter to off, if the person needing catch-up has received vaccines overseas.
• Updated business logic and validation checks to disallow multiple identical vaccine combinations from being added on the same date.
• Added 'vaccination history' to the 'Confirmation'.

Version 1.02 (released 11/02/2020)

• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.01

• Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.00

• Catch-up recommendations for healthy children under the age of 10.