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Clinical trial of standing-orders strategies to increase the inpatient influenza vaccination rate.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 Jan;30(1):86-8
Authors: Trick WE, Das K, Gerard MN, Charles-Damte M, Murphy G, Benson I, Morita JY
We compared strategies to increase the rate of influenza vaccination. A written standing-orders policy that enabled nurses to vaccinate patients was compared with augmentation of the standing-orders policy with either electronic opt-out orders for physicians or electronic reminders to nurses. Use of opt-out orders yielded the highest vaccination rate (12% of patients), followed by use of nursing reminders (6%); use of the standing-orders policy alone was ineffective.
PMID: 19046061 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]