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Outreach efforts aim to improve pneumococcal, flu vaccine rates in primary care

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 3rd, 2002

Two studies published recently in the British Journal of General Practice focused on efforts to boost flu and pneumococcal vaccine rates in primary practices.

A.N. Siriwardena and colleagues conducted a small study on the impact of educational outreach visits to primary healthcare providers in England. The effort met with variable success, according to their findings.

The researchers randomized 15 primary healthcare practices in the Trent region of England to receive the outreach visits and 15 to constitute the control group. All practices were first stratified for baseline influenza and pneumococcal vaccine rates.

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