TY  - JOUR
T1  - Reducing missed opportunities to vaccinate adults against influenza: What is realistic?
AU  - Maurer J, Harris KM, Lurie N
Y1  - 2009/09/28
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.287
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1633
EP  - 1638
VL  - 169
IS  - 17
N2  - 

			Despite well-documented evidence regarding effectiveness and safety, uptake of influenza vaccine among adults in the United States falls short of targeted rates.1- 2 Efforts to increase influenza vaccine uptake have focused on reducing the number of so-called missed opportunities, ie, patients who visit health care providers during the fall without being vaccinated.1,3 Yet, the potential effectiveness of provider-based strategies for reducing missed opportunities (eg, standing orders, computerized reminders) may be overstated without consideration of patients' willingness to be vaccinated. We present a more realistic estimate of the potential of such strategies to increase influenza vaccine uptake by quantifying the number of unvaccinated adults most amenable to vaccination during a fall visit to a health care provider.
		

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.287
ER  -