Published in:
01-02-2020 | Influenza Vaccination | Concise Research Reports
Patient, Physician, and Environmental Predictors of Influenza Vaccination During Primary Care Visits
Authors:
Sujatha Changolkar, BA, Charles A. L. Rareshide, MS, Christopher K. Snider, MPH, Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 2/2020
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Excerpt
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that clinicians offer patients the influenza vaccine.
1 Yet, even among patients who visited their primary care clinician during the influenza season, more than half were not vaccinated.
2 Data from the electronic health record or other sources could help to identify factors related to these decisions. While patient perceptions of vaccination have been explored,
3 larger evaluations of factors related to vaccination during primary care visits have not been well-examined. The objective of this study was to evaluate data from a large primary care network to evaluate patient, physician, and environmental predictors of influenza vaccination. …
