Giving Immunizations Through Vaccine Education

Using Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare Quality in Primary Care Practices and in Transitions Between Care Settings

This study will test the effectiveness of clinician-focused health IT-based decision support, family-focused health IT-based decision support, and a combination of both efforts, in increasing HPV and other adolescent vaccine rates among adolescent girls. We hypothesize that a combination of clinician-focused clinical decision support and family-focused decision support will be most effective.

• Clinician-focused intervention includes an electronic health record-based decision support mechanism including reminders, education, audit and feedback on vaccination success.
• Family-focused intervention includes vaccine reminders and informational telephone calls prompted by the electronic health record.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All clinicians practicing at participating sites
• Parents with an eligible adolescent girl
• Adolescent girls
• Ages 11-17
• Has a visit at one of the primary care centers within the last 15 months.
• Has not completed the teen vaccine series

Exclusion Criteria:

• None