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Communication from primary care practices regarding adolescent immunization
Clark SJ , Reeves SL , Gebremariam A , Stokley SM , Dombkowski KJ . Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2014 54 (11) 1107-9 Primary care practices often remind patients and parents about upcoming appointments or needed immunizations, a strategy shown to be effective in a range of settings, using a variety of methods.1 Immunization reminders may be a particularly valuable strategy for increasing adolescent immunization coverage rates, which are lower than rates for the primary series, as parents may be unaware of recent additions to the recommended immunization schedule for adolescents.2 Also, with the large time gap between kindergarten booster shots and adolescent doses, parents may forget about the need to continue with vaccination. In addition, adolescents are less likely than younger children to visit primary care practices, leading to limited opportunities to catch-up immunizations.3 | Traditionally, reminders have been sent through mail and calls to home phones; in recent years, text messaging has been used in limited instances.4,5 Our objective was to assess the degree to which parents of adolescents have received reminders, the mode of contact for those messages, parents’ preferences for future reminders, and stability of contact information for different communication modes. |
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