Public Provider Immunization Assessments in Indiana
2002 Assessment Results
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Recommendations and Conclusions
- Public providers with high immunization coverage levels are congratulated
for their efforts to improve immunization rates in Indiana. Please keep up
your efforts in the immunization field.
- Public providers with low immunization rates should work diligently to
improve their immunization coverage levels.
- Vaccine shortages experienced in 2002 may have contributed to low
immunization coverage levels in some public provider practices.
- Improvements in the documentation of vaccines will lead to a more accurate
analysis of immunization coverage levels. Better documentation will lead to a
clearer understanding of which areas of immunization practices need to be
addressed to help raise coverage levels statewide.
- Implementation and use of reminder and recall systems are essential for
improving the single antigen and vaccination series coverage levels among a
provider’s active patient population.
- Continued efforts need to be made to eliminate the dropout rate between
the first and final doses of individual vaccines, particularly for the DTaP
vaccine.
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