Routine childhood vaccination rates in an academic family health team before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a pre-post analysis of a retrospective chart review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been concern about declining routine vaccination rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early childhood vaccination rates at 2 sites of an academic family health team in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, serving both an urban and suburban patient population.

Methods

We conducted a pre-post analysis of vaccination records from Jan. 1, 2018, to Nov. 30, 2020, for a cohort of children born between Jan. 1, 2018, and Aug. 31, 2020, from the electronic medical record (EMR) of the Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team (including an urban academic site in Toronto and a suburban community site in Vaughan, Ontario). We estimated the proportion of children receiving timely, delayed or no vaccination for 10 publicl

SUBMITTER: Dong A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920592 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature