Coaching and Communication Training for HPV Vaccination: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

US health departments routinely conduct in-person quality improvement (QI) coaching to strengthen primary care clinics' vaccine delivery systems, but this intervention achieves only small, inconsistent improvements in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Thus, we sought to evaluate the effectiveness of combining QI coaching with remote provider communication training to improve impact.

Methods

With health departments in 3 states, we conducted a pragmatic 4-arm cluster randomized clinical trial with 267 primary care clinics (76% pediatrics). Clinics received in-person QI coaching, remote provider communication training, both interventions combined, or control. Using data from states' immunization information systems, we assessed HPV vaccination am

SUBMITTER: Gilkey MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535352 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature