Targeted Vaccinations: Provider Education

Task Force Finding*

Provider education seeks to increase providers’ knowledge and change their attitudes about vaccinations, to get them to deliver more of the appropriate vaccinations to their clients or to improve their interactions with clients so that clients are more willing to accept vaccinations. Information can be delivered through printed materials, videos, lectures, continuing medical education programs, and computerized software.

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of provider education when implemented alone in increasing influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, or hepatitis B vaccination coverage among high-risk adults because no studies of this intervention were found.

*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