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Latino Adolescent-Mother Language Concordance, Neighborhood Deprivation, and Vaccinations in Community Health Centers
Conclusions: In a multistate analysis of vaccinations among Latino and non-Latino adolescents, English-preferring adolescents with Spanish- preferring mothers had the highest completion rates and English-preferring non-Hispanic white dyads had the lowest. Further research can seek to understand why this language dyad may have an advantage in adolescent vaccination completion.PMID:36976843 | DOI:10.1370/afm.21.s1.3815
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - March 28, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Rachel Springer John Heintzman Jorge Kaufmann Sophia Giebultowicz Miguel Marino Nathaniel Warren Heather Angier Source Type: research

Effectiveness and durability of BNT162b2 vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions due to SARS-CoV-2 omicron sub-lineages BA.1 and BA.2 in a large health system in the USA: a test-negative, case-control study
This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04848584, and is ongoing.FINDINGS: Of 65 813 total admissions during the study period, we included 16 994 in our analyses, of which 7435 were due to BA.1, 1056 were due to BA.2, and 8503 were not due to SARS-CoV-2. In adjusted analyses, two-dose vaccine effectiveness was 40% (95% CI 27 to 50) for hospitalisation and 29% (18 to 38) for emergency department admission against BA.1 and 56% (31 to 72) for hospitalisation and 16% (-5 to 33) for emergency department admission against BA.2. Three-dose vaccine effectiveness was 79% (74 to 83) for hospitalisation and 72% (67 to 77) ...
Source: Respiratory Care - October 10, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Sara Y Tartof Jeff M Slezak Laura Puzniak Vennis Hong Timothy B Frankland Fagen Xie Bradley K Ackerson Srinivas R Valluri Luis Jodar John M McLaughlin Source Type: research

Primary Care Professionals' Attitudes Towards Vaccination Recommendation for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
CONCLUSIONS: There is room for improvement of vaccination recommendations by PCPs. Promoting continuing education and use of clinical tools may help support PCP immunization practices for patients with IBD.PMID:35779060 | DOI:10.1093/ibd/izac129
Source: Herpes - July 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Fang Xu Neal deJong Michael D Kappelman Kurt J Greenlund Susan A Carlson Source Type: research

Exploring electronic health records to estimate the extent of catch-up immunisation and factors associated with under-immunisation among refugees and asylum seekers in south east Queensland
CONCLUSION: This study indicates that the broader group of immigrants, and in particular refugees and asylum seekers, do not represent a homogenous group in terms of immunisation coverage, and that each cohort should be carefully considered during immunisation interventions and strategies. This will be particularly important during targeted health promotions and future immunisation programs in this cohort.PMID:34556368 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.09.026
Source: Vaccine - September 24, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Mercy Moraa Nyanchoga Patricia Lee Gaery Barbery Source Type: research

DrugWAS: Drug-wide association studies for COVID-19 drug repurposing
In conclusion, this cohort study leveraged EHR data to identify a list of drugs that could be repurposed to improve COVID-19 outcomes. Further randomized clinical trials are needed to investigate the efficacy of the proposed drugs.PMID:34314511 | DOI:10.1002/cpt.2376
Source: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics - July 27, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Cosmin A Bejan Katherine N Cahill Patrick J Staso Leena Choi Josh F Peterson Elizabeth J Phillips Source Type: research

The impact of childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunisation on all-cause pneumonia admissions in Hong Kong: A 14-year population-based interrupted time series analysis
Vaccine. 2021 Apr 12:S0264-410X(21)00406-0. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.03.090. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Nine years after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) in the United States, Hong Kong (HK) introduced the vaccine to its universal childhood immunisation programme in 2009. We aimed to assess the impact of childhood PCV immunisation on all-cause pneumonia (ACP) admissions among the overall population of HK.METHODS: In this population-based interrupted time series analysis, we used territory-wide population-representative electronic health records in HK to evaluate the vaccine impact....
Source: Vaccine - April 16, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Qiuyan Yu Xue Li Min Fan Hong Qiu Angel Y S Wong Linwei Tian Celine S L Chui Philip H Li Lauren K W Lau Esther W Chan William B Goggins Patrick Ip Terry Y Lum Ivan F N Hung Benjamin J Cowling Ian C K Wong Mark Jit Source Type: research

The impact of the implementation of a clinical decision support system on the quality of healthcare services in a primary care setting
DISCUSSION: The electronic health record with CDS led to significantly improved uptake of immunizations and screening tests, with earlier diagnoses of breast and colon cancer. Evidence of improvement in chronic disease outcomes is still lacking.PMID:33681044 | PMC:PMC7928113 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1728_20
Source: Primary Care - March 8, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Ahmed Sherif Mahmoud Abdullah Alkhenizan Mohammed Shafiq Suad Alsoghayer Source Type: research

Communicating Benefits from Vaccines Beyond Preventing Infectious Diseases
AbstractDespite immunisation being one of the greatest medical success stories of the twentieth century, there is a growing lack of confidence in some vaccines. Improving communication about the direct benefits of vaccination as well as its benefits beyond preventing infectious diseases may help regain this lost confidence. A conference was organised at the Fondation Merieux in France to discuss what benefits could be communicated and how innovative digital initiatives can used for communication. During this meeting, a wide range of indirect benefits of vaccination were discussed. For example, influenza vaccination can red...
Source: Infectious Diseases and Therapy - June 23, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research

Why Doctors should read books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD     “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method” Herman Melville, Moby Dick Asymmetry of Error During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz. Trader and mathem...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs

Why Doctors (And Everybody Else) Should Read Books by Nassim Taleb
By SAURABH JHA, MD “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick Asymmetry of Error During the Ebola epidemic calls to ban flights from Africa from some quarters were met by accusations of racism from other quarters. Experts claimed that Americans were at greater risk of dying from cancer than Ebola, and if they must fret they should fret more about cancer than Ebola. One expert, with a straight Gaussian face, went as far as saying that even hospitals were more dangerous than Ebola. Pop science reached an unprecedented fizz. Trader and mathematicia...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Economics The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs