Patient Portal Reminders for Pediatric Influenza Vaccinations: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT: In a large health system, we evaluated the effectiveness of electronic health record patient portal reminders in increasing pediatric influenza vaccination rates. We conducted an intention-to-treat randomized clinical trial of 22 046 children from 6 months to <18 years of age in 53 primary care practices. Patients (or parent and/or proxies) who were active portal users were randomly assigned to receive reminder messages framed as gains or losses or no messages. They were separately randomly assigned to receive a precommitment message before the influenza season. The primary outcome was receipt of ≥1 seasonal influenza vaccinations. Additionally, children 6 months to <3 years of age due for a second influenza vaccine were randomly assigned to receive a reminder or no reminder for the second

SUBMITTER: Lerner C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669575 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature