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Electronic health record-based alerts to clinicians, to remind them their pediatric and adolescent asthma patients need an influenza vaccine, result in only a small improvement in vaccine delivery.  “Receipt of influenza vaccination is a benchmark of quality care for children and adolescents with asthma and other high-risk conditions,” Dr. Alexander G. Fiks, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues write in the July issue of Pediatrics. “Despite recommendations from both the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, rates throughout the nation remain low for children with asthma” and are even lower among teens.

SOURCE: medscape.com
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