Effects of a Pharmacy-Driven Perisplenectomy Vaccination Program on Vaccination Rates and Adherence to Guidelines

Effects of a pharmacy-driven perisplenectomy vaccination program on vaccination rates and adherence to guidelines.

BACKGROUND Overwhelming postsplenectomy infection is a serious potential outcome for patients who have undergone resection of the spleen and is associated with a high mortality rate. The most common bacterial causes are the encapsulated organisms Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Hemophilus influenzae type B, all of which are vaccine-preventable. Current guidelines recommend...

Using Focus Groups to Validate a Pharmacy Vaccination Training Program

Introduction: Focus group methodology is commonly used to quickly collate, integrated views from a variety of different stakeholders. This paper provides an example of how focus groups can be employed to collate expert opinion informing amendments on a newly developed training program for integration into undergraduate pharmacy curricula. Materials and methods: Four focus groups were conducted,...

The Vaccination of Hepatitis A

در ایالات متحده آمریکا ۷۵۰۰۰ الی ۱۲۵۰۰۰ مورد هپاتیت حاد در اثر ویروس هپاتیت A در سال گزارش می شود که سالانه ۱۰۰ نفر در اثر این بیماری می میرند که هزینه ای معادل ۲۰۰ میلیون دلار به همراه دارد. ویروس بیماری هپاتیت A از طریق مدفوع - دهانی انتشار پیدا می کند به طوریکه با خوردن غذا یا آب آلوده به این ویروس، فرد بیمار می شود.

Guidelines for Typhoid Vaccination

Improving adherence rates to a cocooning program

Cocoon is defined as a strategy to reduce the risk for transmission of pertussis to newborn infants by vaccinating household members including parents and siblings. Programmatic challenges make implementation of cocooning program complex. At the local health care unit "ASL Napoli 1 Centro," a one-year pilot project to evaluate the newborn contacts adherence to a cocoon strategy was started on M...