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Multiple ImmunizationsOuch!
Shoshana T. Melman, MD;
Tejpal Chawla;
J. Martin Kaplan, MD;
Ran D. Anbar, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(7):615-617.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the stated willingness of parents/caretakers to allow the administration of multiple, injected immunizations to their children at a single visit. Two hundred eighty-one parents/caretakers accompanying their children to an inner-city pediatric clinic were presented with hypothetical situations in which their children would be due for two, three, or four injections to complete their series of age-appropriate immunizations. Given a scenario of two needed injections, 24 (8.5%) of the 281 parents/caretakers preferred to divide the injections between two visits; for three injections, 119 (42.3%) preferred two visits; and for four injections, 164 (58.4%) preferred two visits. The commonly stated preference of our predominantly minority parent/caretaker population to divide more than two injections between two visits seriously conflicts with the US Public Health Service's National Vaccine Advisory Committee's recommendations and potentially exacerbates immunization delays. Therefore, physicians must be prepared to strongly urge simultaneous administration of all needed vaccine doses at any opportunity.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa (Drs Melman, Kaplan, and Anbar). Mr Chawla is an undergraduate student at Boston (Mass) University.
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