Removing Hospitalization as a Barrier to Immunization

Improving the Rates of Inpatient Pneumococcal Vaccination: Impact of Standing Orders Versus Computerized Reminders to Physicians

“…25 Pharmacists are skilled at medication counseling and have previously been demonstrated to be especially effective at screening and identifying candidates for vaccination and as immunization educators. 24,26 In fact, 30 states currently allow pharmacists to administer immunizations, although this is not currently permitted by New York state law. 25 Our program was sustainable by assigning the screening, consent, and standing orders activation responsibilities to the already existing pharmacy staff and was thus cost-neutral.…”

An update on the prevention of influenza in children and adolescents

“…This is probably due to several immunisation barriers which have been identified among physicians and patients [5,6,23,58,59]. Most importantly, misconceptions on the true burden of disease and its complications and lack of awareness of the benefits of influenza prevention can be blamed for this unfortunate state of affairs [23,40,55,62].…”