Pediatrician attitudes concerning school-located vaccination clinics for seasonal influenza.
Pediatrics
; 129 Suppl 2: S96-S100, 2012 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-22383488
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Vaccinating all children aged 6 months to 18 years every year has potentially large ramifications for office-based primary care pediatricians. We determined the degree to which pediatricians support routine annual influenza vaccination outside the medical home, especially in school-located mass influenza vaccination clinics.METHODS:
Internet-based survey sent in May and June 2009 to all 623 currently practicing primary care general pediatricians who were members of the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.RESULTS:
Of those surveyed, 193 (31%) responded. Approximately 67% reported they vaccinated more than half the children in their practice with at least one dose in the 2008-2009 influenza season, and about half anticipated that, in their office, they would not attain ≥75% coverage of all patients older than 5 months of age. Approximately 27% of respondents predicted they would likely have difficulty obtaining sufficient vaccine to cover commercially insured patients, and 32% were likely to have difficulty getting sufficient vaccine to cover Medicaid, underinsured, and uninsured patients because of ordering or distribution problems. Approximately 78% of respondents cited borderline or poor reimbursement for influenza vaccinations, and 53% had unused vaccine at the end of the 2008-2009 influenza season. Ninety-six percent of respondents supported school-located influenza vaccination programs in their community for their patients.CONCLUSIONS:
These results indicate awareness by primary care pediatricians in Maryland of the potential difficulties involved in implementing universal influenza vaccinations in their practice and their support of school-located vaccination programs managed by the local health department in their community.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Médicos
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Serviços de Saúde Escolar
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Vacinas contra Influenza
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
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Vacinação em Massa
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Pediatrics
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos