Increasing Vaccine Uptake Among Veterans at the Atlanta VA Health Care System

Summary

The Office of Evaluation Sciences is collaborating with Emory University and the Atlanta VA Health Care System to increase adult immunizations uptake among veterans. The intervention targets patients of primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners) through a modification of the existing reminders in the VA electronic health record system. The team will evaluate the intervention using a randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

• Influenza
• Tetanus
• Diphtheria
• Pertussis
• Pneumonia

Interventions

OTHER

Modified clinical reminders

Clinical reminders for the vaccines of interest will be bundled into a single reminder, and other changes made to streamline the design and reduce provider burden. Other changes include an immunization dashboard that relays a patient's vaccination status and talking points for providers to use in their dialogues with patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• General Services Administration (GSA)

  collaborator FED

• Emory University

  collaborator OTHER

• Atlanta VA Medical Center

  lead FED

Principal Investigators

• Pompa Debroy, MS · Office of Evaluation Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration

• Russ Burnett, PhD · Office of Evaluation Sciences, U.S. General Services Administration

• Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD · Emory University

• Joseph M Wallace · Atlanta VA Health Care System

• Vincent Marconi, MD · Atlanta VA Health Care System, Emory University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-10-15

Primary Completion

2019-05-30

Completion

2019-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations