Search results for "Adult Immunization"
General internists crucial to raising adult immunization rates
support patients, physicians, health care teams, systems, and communities raise adult immunization rates and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases. ... In addition to ACP resources, these websites provide useful information and tools to raise patients'
October 2015
ACP launches new services for quality improvement | Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 News | ACP Internist
The ACP Advance chronic care QI programs and resources span various clinical conditions and focus areas including adult immunization, atrial fibrillation, chronic pain and safe opioid prescribing, and diabetes.
April 2019
ACP President: Not Enough Americans Have Been Vaccinated Against H1N1 Flu
Editor's note: Val Jones, MD, guest authored this post, which originally appeared on her blog, Better Health . Over 10,000 Americans (mos...
October 2019
QD: News Every Day--Less than one-third of PCPs stock all adult vaccines
QD: News Every Day--Less than one-third of PCPs stock all adult vaccines. ... ACP's tools for its Adult Immunization Initiative are online.
October 2019
Adult immunization rates fall far short of goals
We don't have the same commitment to a comprehensive adult immunization program. ... Beyond that, both patients and providers, including internists I'm afraid, can use more education and familiarity with adult immunizations and the adult immunization
April 2011
Immunization is everyone's issue
Vaccination is an important part of preventive care, especially for patients with chronic diseases, yet adult immunization rates in the U.S. ... But it doesn't have to be that way.”. ACP convened an Advisory Group in March to discuss barriers to adult
October 2019
Keep up with vaccine recommendations
Poland, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Rochester's Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and chair of ACP's Adult Immunization Committee. ... But William Schaffner, MD, MACP, a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., who is a member
September 2013
Uptake of herpes zoster vaccine linked to supply
an internist in Middletown, Del., and former Chair of ACP's Immunization Technical Advisory Committee. ... FACP, a consultant for the Immunization Action Coalition who served as past director of adult immunization at the CDC until retiring two years ago.
October 2019
Building the medical home starts in school
Recently added content in the tool includes modules on managing patient medication and engaging patients, with additional modules on chronic pain management, adult immunization, and diabetes mellitus coming soon.
November 2011
Expensive vaccines may wipe out wrong target—the doctor
One of the secrets of getting kids vaccinated is to take advantage of every patient encounter,” says Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MACP, a member of the ACP Adult Immunization Board. ... a rash, there is no reason you can't give them an immunization, unless
April 2009