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Healthcare providers miss many opportunities to vaccinate children.(Brief Article)
2002 JUN 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanne Nelson, medical writer - Self reporting of immunization procedures and actual clinical practice do not always correlate, researchers in the U.S. say. Pediatric healthcare practitioners may be missing out on a number of opportunities to vaccinate their patients.
In this preliminary study, investigators attempted to draw a parallel between the psychosocial characteristics of healthcare providers and their self-reporting of immunization practices and missed opportunities to vaccinate young children.
R. Prislin and colleagues from San Diego State University in California analyzed information from a sample of 28 pediatric healthcare providers. The population of children studied ranged in age from newborn to 3 years.
Prislin and her team found missed immunization opportunities were significantly lower among practitioners who had a higher vested interest. They also tended to be lower among providers who held positive views about immunization, and keeping children up to date during healthcare visits (Missed opportunities to immunize: Psychosocial and practice correlates, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2002;22(3):165-169).
"Neither knowledge nor perceived barriers correlated significantly with missed opportunities," said Prislin and colleagues.
In more than half of all visits studied (mean, 0.58), the practitioners overlooked opportunities to administer vaccines to their patients. However, all of the providers stated that ...
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