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. 2024 Sep 9;4(1):e117.
doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.380. eCollection 2024.

Lessons learned from implementation of an electronic decision support tool for hospital-administered pneumococcal vaccinations

Sanchi Malhotra #  1 , Rachel Martin-Blais #  2   3 , Ross Pineda  4 , Meganne Kanatani  4 , Ishminder Kaur  1 , Annabelle de St Maurice  1
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Lessons learned from implementation of an electronic decision support tool for hospital-administered pneumococcal vaccinations

Sanchi Malhotra et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. .

Abstract

Experts recommend standing orders for hospital-administered vaccines to improve adult immunization rates. We implemented an admission assessment tool to offer pneumococcal vaccine to eligible hospitalized patients. We retrospectively reviewed vaccines for guideline concordance and found that immunization rates increased but less than half of study patients received the correct vaccine.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors report no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Stacked horizontal bar chart of reasons why an incorrect vaccine was given by age group. Note that 33% of patients under age 65 received an incorrect vaccine and 69% of patients age 65 and older received an incorrect vaccine.
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