ACP urges physicians to strongly recommend and offer flu shots to pregnant women following CDC report

As of early November 2017, almost two-thirds of pregnant women had not been vaccinated against the flu, according to the CDC. Among pregnant women who had visited a doctor since July 2017, 15.6% had received a recommendation for the flu vaccination, but no offer, while 25.7% did not receive a recommendation or an offer for the flu vaccination .

ACP urges physicians and their staff to recommend and offer flu shots to all patients, especially pregnant women, throughout the flu season.

ACP offers the following resources to help increase immunization rates:

• immunization patient-education materials
• examples of quality improvement projects in adult immunization
• the ACP Practice Advisor Adult Immunization Module, focused on steps that staff in primary care offices can take to improve the rates of immunization
• ACP Adult Immunization & Quality Improvement for Residents, a training program on the science of adult immunizations and evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccination rates
• I Raise the Rates webinar series