ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2007
Missed opportunities to vaccinate children admitted to a paediatric tertiary hospital.
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- Exploring provider and parental perceptions to influenza vaccination in the inpatient setting.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2018Article
- Transcranial Doppler Screening Among Children and Adolescents With Sickle Cell Anemia.JAMA pediatrics · 2016Article
- Vaccine-preventable disease susceptibility in a British paediatric assessment unit.Journal of infection prevention · 2014Review
- Timeliness of childhood vaccine uptake among children attending a tertiary health service facility-based immunisation clinic in Ghana.BMC public health · 2014Article
- Using routinely collected data to improve immunisation histories.BMJ quality improvement reports · 2014Article
- On-time vaccination coverage in premature infants in Ontario, 2002-2009.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2012Article
- A comparison of populations vaccinated in a public service and in a private hospital setting in the same area.BMC public health · 2008Article
- MMR: where are we now?Archives of disease in childhood · 2007Review
- Evaluating Interventions to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates among Pediatric Inpatients.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundInequalities in vaccine uptake exist. Studies suggest paediatric inpatients have lower rates of immunisation uptake than the general population. Various UK policies advocate opportunistic immunisation.
aimTo evaluate practice within a paediatric tertiary hospital in identifying and facilitating vaccination of inpatients who were not fully immunised.
methodsCase notes for 225 inpatients were examined. Thirty staff of various professions and grades were interviewed. Policies, forms and documents used in the hospital were reviewed.
resultsImmunisation status was recorded for 71% of children admitted, but for 69% of these immunisations were documented as "up-to-date" without any further information recorded. At least 20% of inpatients were incompletely immunised, but very little was done to facilitate vaccination. There was no training for staff either in giving advice or in administering vaccines and staff views differed regarding the hospital's role in immunisations. While there were guidelines for specific groups of patients, there were no general immunisation policies. Incorrect and out-of-date immunisation schedules were found on documents.
conclusionsOpportunities to immunise children continue to be missed by all levels of health care service provision. Tertiary centres have a role to play in supporting primary care services to ensure that these vulnerable children are appropriately immunised. Measures are being taken to address the problems identified in this study and we strongly suspect that other hospitals in the UK ought to be confronting these issues as well.
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