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AAP Grand Rounds 9:30 (2003)
© 2003 American Academy of Pediatrics

COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS

Immunization Recall by Letter and Telephone May Not Be Effective for Inner-city Populations

Source: Daley MF, Steiner JF, Brayden RM, et al. Immunization registry-based recall for a new vaccine. Ambul Pediatr. 2002;2: 438–443.[Medline]

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Studies have shown that immunization rates among inner-city children lag behind the general population,1 and the disparity is largest for vaccines recently added to the schedule.2 These authors from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and The Children’s Hospital, Denver, studied the utility of a recall system to bring children to clinic for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Patients (n=1,234) 6 weeks to 22 months of age who had not yet had the pneumococcal vaccine were identified from an existing immunization registry in a Denver inner-city clinic. Parents of children assigned to the intervention group received mailed information about the vaccine, followed 10 days later by a telephone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stanley I. Fisch, MD, FAAP
Private Practice, Harlingen, TX