Implementation Of Parent Reminder/Recall, Healthcare Professional Audit/Feedback Increased HPV Vaccination Uptake Compared With Usual Care Approaches, Study Results Show

Healio (12/21, Welsh) reports, “Implementation of parent reminder/recall and health care professional audit/feedback increased HPV vaccination uptake compared with usual care approaches, according to study results.” Researchers found that “the reminder/recall intervention resulted in 34.6% of children receiving an HPV vaccine dose, and the audit/feedback intervention resulted in 30.4% receiving the vaccine compared with 21.9% with usual care.” And “when utilizing both the reminder/recall and audit/feedback interventions, the HPV vaccine uptake rate rose to 39.7%.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics.