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CompletedNCT03950986

Increasing Vaccine Uptake Among Veterans at the Atlanta VA Health Care System

Increasing Vaccine Uptake Among Veterans at the Atlanta VA Health Care System Through a Randomized Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
67,000 (actual)
Sponsor
Atlanta VA Medical Center · Federal
Sex
All
Age
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The Office of Evaluation Sciences is collaborating with Emory University and the Atlanta VA Health Care System to increase adult immunizations uptake among veterans. The intervention targets patients of primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners) through a modification of the existing reminders in the VA electronic health record system. The team will evaluate the intervention using a randomized controlled trial.

Detailed description

The Office of Evaluation Sciences is collaborating with Emory University and the Atlanta VA Health Care System to increase adult immunizations uptake among veterans. The intervention targets patients of primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners) through a modification of the existing reminders in the VA electronic health record system. The intervention includes a bundled vaccination reminder for influenza, pneumococcal and TDap vaccines, an immunization dashboard that relays a patient's vaccination status and history, and talking points for providers to use in their dialogues with patients. This intervention was designed to mitigate potential bottlenecks to vaccination, based on conversations and observations with facility clinicians. The team will evaluate the intervention using a randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERModified clinical remindersClinical reminders for the vaccines of interest will be bundled into a single reminder, and other changes made to streamline the design and reduce provider burden. Other changes include an immunization dashboard that relays a patient's vaccination status and talking points for providers to use in their dialogues with patients.

Timeline

Start date
2018-10-15
Primary completion
2019-05-30
Completion
2019-06-30
First posted
2019-05-15
Last updated
2020-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03950986. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.