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Better Physician Counseling Could Lead to Improved Vaccine Coverage.(Brief Article)
2001 JUL 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - If physicians regularly offered education and counseling about the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV), their elderly patients would be more likely to get it, according to a new report in Preventive Medicine.
A telephone survey conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health found that community-dwelling residents 65 or older were generally willing to get the PPV but were uninformed about its benefits, said K.R. Ehresmann and colleagues.
Among 350 people who completed the survey, 59% said they had received PPV and nearly all reported a health care visit in the previous year. Those who were not vaccinated said they would be willing to get PPV if they knew more about its safety, dosage, and preventive role.
Factors associated with PPV coverage included awareness of the vaccine (odds ratio [OR] 7.8), opinion that receiving PPV is "very important" (OR 8.3), awareness that Medicare covers PPV (OR 5.1), physician ever offering PPV (OR 21.7), and physician regularly offering PPV (OR 3.9) ("Factors associated with self-reported pneumococcal immunization among adults 65 years of age or older in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area," Prev Med, 2001;32(5):409-415).
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