Provider Education About Pneumococcal Vaccination Practices for Older Adults

Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates among Rural Older Adults through Academic Detailing: Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy Partnership

“…The academic detailing intervention used in this study may have increased provider and staff knowledge of the complex pneumococcal vaccination schedule thereby increasing available opportunities for vaccination. In fact, the exam room posters (Figure 5) were the element in the academic detailing intervention that clinic providers and staff expressed most satisfaction with [19,20]. In an attempt to make vaccination more accessible to patients, clinic workflows wer re-organized so that medical assistants who roomed patients were altered (by a flag in on clinic and a report in the second clinic), to the need for vaccination.…”

“…The 12-month intervention began with a needs assessment, from which mutually agreed upon goals were established for the project. These included conducting a workflow assessment of the use of practice-based health information technology (e.g., electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) systems), providing vaccination training to affiliated pharmacy personnel, practice providers and staff, and the creation and distribution of exam-room posters that invited a patient to discuss the need for vaccination with their provider [19,20]. Repeat visits (six in total) were made to each practice at regular intervals to deliver education, discuss needs, select priorities and develop action plans from recommendations.…”

“…Repeat visits (six in total) were made to each practice at regular intervals to deliver education, discuss needs, select priorities and develop action plans from recommendations. A detailed description of the academic detailing intervention and practice visit schedule has been published elsewhere and summarized in Table 1 [19,20]. The academic detailing intervention was accomplished through multiple visits to the site, each with its own purpose and goals.…”