Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Strategies to Address Vaccine Refusal Among Pregnant Women.

CONCLUSION: Ob-gyns perceive vaccine refusal among pregnant women as common and refusal of influenza vaccine as more common than refusal of Tdap vaccine. Emphasizing the risk of disease to the fetus or newborn may be an effective strategy to increase vaccine uptake.
PMID: 30531564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Obstetrics and Gynecology - December 4, 2018 Category: OBGYN Authors: OʼLeary ST, Riley LE, Lindley MC, Allison MA, Albert AP, Fisher A, Jiles AJ, Crane LA, Hurley LP, Beaty B, Brtnikova M, Kempe A Tags: Obstet Gynecol Source Type: research