Patients more likely to get HPV vaccine after electronic health record prompts
Monday, May 11, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
A simple reminder via electronic health record systems linked to significantly higher HPV vaccine completion rates, researchers say. The HPV vaccine has the lowest completion rates of any other vaccine. Researchers compared data for 6,019 patients whose clinics had prompts set up and 9,096 without prompts. Patients in the first group were significantly more likely to complete the vaccine series in a timely manner.