Effects of computer reminders for influenza vaccination on morbidity during influenza epidemics.

摘要: To study the effects of computer-generated reminders for influenza vaccination patients at high risk pulmonary disease during winter, we selected 4555 such from a population 15,000 adults who participated in three-year randomized trial preventive-care reminders. The physicians received vaccinated eligible twice as often did control (P = 0.0001). There was linear increase incidence our area three winters under (from 1000 to 33,451 71,075 cases per year), and modeled percentage with hospitalizations, emergency room visits chest radiography, blood gas determinations logistic function this increase. difference trends between intervention group (whose reminders) those significant less than 0.05), hospitalizations 0.01), 0.001). most likely explanation is greater use vaccine group.