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Reminder systems increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations in elderly.
2003 MAR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hospital- and community-based reminder systems can increase rate of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination in hospitalized patients aged 65 years and over.
"Hospitalization represents an opportunity to identify unimmunized people at risk for the complications of influenza and pneumococcal disease. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of two strategies to increase uptake of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in eligible, hospitalized subjects aged 65 years or more, admitted between May and September 1998 to a Melbourne hospital," researchers in Australia report.
"Unvaccinated participants were allocated randomly to alert systems for hospital staff or community general practitioners (GPs)," said C. R. MacIntyre and colleagues at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Westmead. "Follow-up occurred at one and three months. The baseline vaccination rates were 70% for influenza (426/606) and 41% (248/606) for pneumococcal disease. For unvaccinated subjects, the hospital alert resulted in 67% uptake compared to 55% following a GP alert for pneumococcal vaccine; and 63% in hospital compared to 53% following a GP alert for influenza vaccine. Although there was a trend toward a higher uptake in hospital, neither of these differences was statistically significant. The majority (75%) of vaccinations ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Reminder systems increase influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations in...