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Impact of implementing a technology platform in community pharmacies to increase adult immunizations rates
- Source :
- Vaccine. 37:56-60
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Over the course of this project, we utilized pharmacists at 159 community pharmacies in Nebraska and Iowa to administer vaccinations to adults 19 years of age or older with the objective of improving immunization rates in both states. We implemented a pharmacy-based technology platform and partnered with public health via the state immunization registries of both states to ensure that immunizations provided at the pharmacy were transmitted to the statewide registry, for which reporting is currently voluntary for health care providers. After using the technology platform for one year, an increase of immunization rates for influenza, herpes zoster, and pertussis vaccination rates by 37%, 12%, and 74%, respectively, was recorded in comparison to the prior year numbers. However, there was about 16% decrease in vaccination rates for pneumococcal vaccine. For the first time, the project’s participating pharmacies in Nebraska reported immunization counts to their state’s immunization registries. This project leveraged community pharmacies as healthcare destinations to achieve further gains in increasing immunization rates, improving the health of adults, and creating a community-wide network for prevention.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Vaccination Coverage
030231 tropical medicine
Pharmacy
Community Pharmacy Services
Herpes Zoster
Pneumococcal Infections
Pneumococcal Vaccines
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Influenza, Human
Health care
medicine
Herpes Zoster Vaccine
Humans
Pertussis vaccination
030212 general & internal medicine
Pharmacies
Community pharmacies
General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
Immunization Programs
business.industry
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Nebraska
Iowa
Vaccination
Infectious Diseases
Pneumococcal vaccine
Immunization
Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems
Influenza Vaccines
Family medicine
Molecular Medicine
Public Health
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0264410X
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6d80ef3bfc85b4bb267ff6d6c6976237