Lessons learned from implementation of an electronic decision support tool for hospital-administered pneumococcal vaccinations

Sanchi Malhotra; Rachel Martin-Blais; Ross Pineda; Meganne Kanatani; Ishminder Kaur; Annabelle de St Maurice

doi:10.1017/ash.2024.380

Lessons learned from implementation of an electronic decision support tool for hospital-administered pneumococcal vaccinations

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 9;4(1):e117. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.380. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Sanchi Malhotra^#¹, Rachel Martin-Blais^#^{2

3}, Ross Pineda⁴, Meganne Kanatani⁴, Ishminder Kaur¹, Annabelle de St Maurice¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Section of Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁴ Department of Pharmaceutical Services, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Experts recommend standing orders for hospital-administered vaccines to improve adult immunization rates. We implemented an admission assessment tool to offer pneumococcal vaccine to eligible hospitalized patients. We retrospectively reviewed vaccines for guideline concordance and found that immunization rates increased but less than half of study patients received the correct vaccine.