Flu Vaccines
Research from Children's Hospital has provided new information about flu vaccines
Published in Hospital Business Week, December 16th, 2007
Researchers in the United States conducted a study "To improve influenza vaccination rates for high-risk children and adolescents. During the 2004-5 influenza season, 5 regional cystic fibrosis (CF) centres, 6 hospital clinics that participated in a similar initiative the previous year, 4 new hospital clinics, and 39 community-based paediatric practices implemented a multicomponent change package consisting of nine improvement strategies designed to increase immunisation of high-risk patients."
"Each site was encouraged to adopt and customise the improvement strategies to meet their specific culture and needs. The main outcome measure was the proportion of the target...
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