Assessment of immunization status in hospitalized children followed by counseling of parents and primary care physicians improves vaccination coverage: an interventional study.
This prospective, intervention-control study in hospitalized, underimmunized children assessed the effect of vaccination reminders to parents during hospitalization and provides postdischarge rates of catch-up immunizations. One month after hospital discharge, significantly more children in the intervention group (27%) than the controls (8%) had received catch-up immunizations (P < .001).
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Basel University Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.
Beda
B
Muehleisen
Gurli
G
Baer
Urs B
UB
Schaad
Ulrich
U
Heininger
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D017010:Reminder Systems; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*