Targeted Vaccinations: Client Reminder & Recall Systems

Task Force Finding*

Client reminder interventions involve reminding members of a target population that vaccinations are due. Reminders differ in content and are delivered by various methods including, but not limited to, telephone, letters, or postcards.

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of this single-component intervention in improving influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, or hepatitis B vaccination coverage among high-risk adults because only one study, with fair quality of execution, was identified.

*From the following publication:

Task Force for Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to improve targeted vaccination coverage among high-risk adults. [PDF - 97KB] Am J Prev Med 2005:28(5S);231-7.

Review completed: June 2002