Racial Disparities in Pneumococcal Vaccination in Managed Care
Racial Disparities in Pneumococcal Vaccination in Managed Care
The goal of the study was to determine effectiveness of a telephone reminder to increase
 pneumococcal vaccination in a managed care population.
Patients randomized to the intervention arm received a telephone call from managed care
 nurses asking about their pneumococcal vaccination status and whether they would like to be
 vaccinated. We compared six month follow-up of pneumococcal vaccination in electronic medical
 records for the intervention versus control group. We tested the percent vaccinated in each
 randomization arm using chi-square tests for proportions.
Inclusion Criteria:

 - recommended for pneumococcal vaccination according to age or medical comorbidity

 Exclusion Criteria:

 - already known to have received pneumococcal vaccine