• AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Nov 2008

    Clinical Trial

    Implementing a computerized pneumococcal vaccination reminder system in an emergency department: a prospective study.

    • Judith W Dexheimer, Thomas R Talbot, Fei Ye, Yu Shyr, Ian Jones, Willliam M Gregg, and Dominik Aronsky.
    • Departments of Biomedical Informatics,Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
    • AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6: 867.

    AbstractThe Emergency Department is a challenging environment to implement a sustainable pneumococcal vaccination program. To increase vaccination rates for patients > or = 65 years old, we prospectively evaluated a closed-loop informatics approach over a 1-year period. Among 3,455 screened patients 1,393 were up-to-date and 2,062 were eligible for the vaccination. 159 (7.7%) patients received the vaccine at the initial visit and an additional 59 (2.9%) at a subsequent visit, resulting in an overall rate increase of 10.6%.

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