Home Health & Hospice Week
Patients Writing Vaccination Reminders Ups Compliance
If you run flu vaccination drives, some new information from the National Institutes of Health may boost their effectiveness. In a new NIHfunded study, "encouraging people to write down the date and time when they plan to get their flu shot increased the number of people who were vaccinated," the agency says in a release. Reminder mailings already have proven to increase patient compliance with vaccinations. In the study funded by the NIH's National Institute on Aging, "those who were encouraged further to write down both the date and time when they planned to receive the vaccination had a significantly higher rate of vaccination than those who received the mailing listing only the times and locations of the clinics," NIH says. "This study shows that positive health effects can be achieved at a very low cost," NIA director and physician Richard Hodes says in the release. The study is published in the June 13 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/03/1103170108.full.pdf+html.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Patients Writing Vaccination Reminders Ups Compliance
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