title: Clinical trial of standing-orders strategies to increase the inpatient influenza vaccination rate.
abstract: We compared strategies to increase the rate of influenza vaccination. A written standing-orders policy that enabled nurses to vaccinate patients was compared with augmentation of the standing-orders policy with either electronic opt-out orders for physicians or electronic reminders to nurses. Use of opt-out orders yielded the highest vaccination rate (12% of patients), followed by use of nursing reminders (6%); use of the standing-orders policy alone was ineffective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. wtrick@cchil.org
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Trick
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Mary N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Gerard
authors.forename: Marjorie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Charles-Damte
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: Julia Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Morita
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017010:Reminder Systems; D014611:Vaccination / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D007252:Influenza Vaccines