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Charles Marwick

JAMA. 1999;282:2199.

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Atlanta—A renewed effort is being made to increase lagging rates of immunization against influenza and pneumococcal disease. At its October meeting here, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unanimously adopted a recommendation that standing orders be introduced into a variety of settings to increase immunization coverage rates for these diseases among persons 65 years and older and other high-risk groups.

The recommendation says: "Health care delivery organizations, health care providers, and certain social service agencies including, but not limited to inpatient and outpatient facilities, managed care organizations, assisted living facilities, long-term care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home health care agencies, and correctional facilities, may utilize standing orders programs to improve immunization rates in their patient, client, or resident populations."

"We're doing a fairly lousy job immunizing adults under 65 with high-risk conditions," said Richard Zimmerman, MD, of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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