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Review: patient reminder or recall systems improve immunisation rates

Key Words: reminder systems • vaccination

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Data sources
Studies were identified by searching Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, CAB Health Abstracts, and the EPOC register; scanning reference lists of relevant studies and reviews; reviewing abstracts and proceedings from scientific meetings; and contacting study collaborators.

Study selection
Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before and after studies, or interrupted time series studies published in English that evaluated reminder or recall interventions aimed at reminding patients of immunisation visits that were due (reminder) or overdue (recall).

Data extraction
Data were extracted on patient age (newborn to adult); setting (academic, public health, or private); intervention delivery (letter, postcard, telephone, autodialer, or in person), specificity (generic or personal reminders), and number (1 time or multiple reminders); and vaccination schedule. Study quality was assessed (allocation concealment, blinding, follow up, reliable primary outcome measure, and protection against contamination). Outcomes were immunisation rates or the proportion of the target population that was up . . . [Full text of this article]

Paul V Targonski, MD, PhD, Gregory A Poland, MD

Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota, USA