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Overcoming Barriers to Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients With Pneumonia

Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts; Brigham and Women's, Department of Medicine and Hospitalist Medicine, 75 Francis Street, PB/B4/424, Boston, MA 02115 scheured{at}musc.edu

Patrick J. Cawley, MD

Shirley B. Brown, RN, MS

MUSC, South Carolina

John E. Heffner, MD

Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina

Inpatient pneumococcal vaccination remains underutilized, and little data exist to guide hospital personnel in improving their performance. The authors report their experience with a stepwise program to improve vaccination assessment rates for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. They assessed barriers to vaccination and applied a stepwise educational and intranet-based decision support implementation program for hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Preintervention vaccination rates were 0%. Primary nursing and physician barriers were assessed. An educational intervention increased vaccination assessment rates to 35%, a nursing decision-support tool to 42%, and approval of a standing order policy to 96%. For patients older than 65 years, vaccination assessment rates increased 33%, 67%, and 100%, respectively. An educational program combined with a decision support tool and a standing order policy can improve vaccination assessment rates to high levels. This study suggests that a multidimensional intervention is required to improve compliance with inpatient vaccination best clinical practices.

Key Words: pneumovax • pneumococcal vaccination • pneumonia • community-acquired pneumonia

American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 21, No. 1, 18-29 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1062860605280314


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