Lessons learned from implementation of an electronic decision support tool for hospital-administered pneumococcal vaccinations.

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Sanchi Malhotra, Rachel Martin-Blais, Ross Pineda, Meganne Kanatani, Ishminder Kaur, Annabelle de St Maurice

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Sanchi Malhotra: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ORCID
Rachel Martin-Blais: Section of Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA. ORCID
Ross Pineda: Department of Pharmaceutical Services, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Meganne Kanatani: Department of Pharmaceutical Services, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Ishminder Kaur: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Annabelle de St Maurice: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

PMID: 39257430 DOI: 10.1017/ash.2024.380

Experts recommend standing orders for hospital-administered vaccines to improve adult immunization rates. We implemented an admission assessment tool to offer pneumococcal vaccine to eligible hospitalized patients. We retrospectively reviewed vaccines for guideline concordance and found that immunization rates increased but less than half of study patients received the correct vaccine.

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