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Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates

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Systematic Review

Source: The Cochrane Collaborative

Last Reviewed: January 2018

Workgroups: Immunization and Infectious Diseases Workgroup

In this Cochrane systematic review, researchers evaluated and compared the effectiveness of various types of patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates. 

Researchers found that patient reminder and recall systems in primary care settings are likely to be effective at improving the proportion of the target population who receive immunizations.

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Objectives related to this resource (6)

Increase the coverage level of 4 doses of the DTaP vaccine in children by age 2 years — IID‑06
Little or no detectable change
Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 1 dose of the MMR vaccine in children by age 2 years — IID‑03
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of children who get no recommended vaccines by age 2 years — IID‑02
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescents who get recommended doses of the HPV vaccine — IID‑08
Improving
Increase the proportion of people who get the flu vaccine every year — IID‑09
LHI label
Little or no detectable change
Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 2 doses of the MMR vaccine for children in kindergarten — IID‑04
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

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Jacobson Vann JC, Jacobson RM, Coyne‐Beasley T, Asafu‐Adjei JK, Szilagyi PG. (2018). Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates. Retrieved from https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003941.pub3/full.