Providers’ perceptions of an immunization registry

Qualitative Study of Clinic Staff Members' Experiences Using an Immunization Registry

“…Similarly, results from the study conducted by Christakis et al 5 indicate that 41% of registered nurses and nurse practitioners, 30% of pediatricians, and 18% of family physicians reported that training was a barrier to registry use.…”

“…However, respondents who were familiar with their local registry were less likely to believe that registries would solve documentation problems and more likely to believe that registries were not yet of practical value. 5 The perceptions of provider site personnel who interact with a registry are important because any successful registry must have both immunization and demographic records entered accurately and in a timely manner. This information is also important for health care providers who currently participate in a registry or who are considering participation.…”

National Health Care Visit Patterns of Adolescents

“…Others have found that pediatricians were more likely than family practice physicians to track undervaccinated children 42 and adolescents, 43 to use acute care visits as opportunities to vaccinate, and to participate in immunization registries. 44 At the same time, most visits by minority and urban populations are to pediatricians, and because immunization coverage among these populations has tended to be lower, 45 pediatricians have a special role in vaccinating high-risk populations and reducing disparities in coverage. Therefore, it will be critical for professional organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to provide intensive, specialty-specific outreach and communication with their members to maximize delivery of new vaccines to their adolescent patients, particularly those populations that remain traditionally underimmunized.…”

Childhood Immunization Registries

“…However, the factors influencing decisions about implementing these systems are complex. Providers' theoretical support for these systems is probably tempered by perceptions about the utility of the system, which, for example, has yet to include all child immunization information from every provider that a patient visits, as suggested in another recent study of per-ceptions about CHILD Profile in Seattle-King County 35 and in a study using statewide provider focus groups during the design of a registry in North Carolina. 36 Factors that predict registry participation may also relate to the known and perceived clinical and business utility that such systems might have to practices or health care organizations.…”