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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2013 Jul 8;31(40):4436–4441. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.06.092

Table 3.

Clinic characteristics as bivariate correlates of vaccine receipt in 91 clinics (n = 105,121).

Adolescent vaccines Childhood vaccines

HPV, series
initiation
OR (95% CI)
HPV, series
completion
OR (95% CI)
Meningococcal
conjugate
OR (95% CI)
Tdap
OR (95% CI)
Hepatitis B
OR (95% CI)
MMR
OR (95% CI)
Varicella
OR (95% CI)
Female:male patient ratio 3.36 (2.08–5.42)*** 2.16 (1.13–4.13)* 0.66 (0.29–1.51) 0.76 (0.55–1.04) 0.42 (0.18–1.03) 0.36 (0.14–0.94)* 0.13 (0.05–0.37)***
% White patients 0.96 (0.49–1.88) 1.13 (0.70–1.83) 0.54 (0.20–1.46) 1.04 (0.61–1.76) 0.74 (0.32–1.69) 0.55 (0.23–1.32) 0.44 (0.19–1.03)
% African-American patients 2.47 (1.18–5.15)* 1.19 (0.62–2.27) 1.34 (0.56–3.23) 0.82 (0.51–1.29) 1.54 (0.62–3.84) 1.45 (0.55–3.81) 0.83 (0.29–2.42)
% Hispanic patients 5.44 (0.91–32.73) 0.46 (0.13–1.64) 0.68 (0.11–4.42) 0.47 (0.13–1.68) 0.12 (0.02–0.75)* 0.07 (0.01–0.50)** 0.11 (0.01–1.22)
Patients with VFC-eligibility 1.11 (0.97–1.26) 1.05 (0.93–1.18) 1.14 (0.90–1.44) 1.02 (0.93–1.11) 1.50 (1.25–1.82)*** 1.46 (1.19–1.78)*** 1.21 (0.99–1.48)
Adolescent patient load 0.91 (0.80–1.04) 1.01 (0.91–1.12) 1.24 (0.97–1.58) 1.10 (0.94–1.28) 1.71 (1.45–2.01)*** 1.79 (1.51–2.11)*** 1.65 (1.39–1.94)***
Clinic specialty
  Family medicine (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref) (ref)
  Pediatrics 0.70 (0.52–0.94)* 0.77 (0.59–1.01) 1.79 (1.25–2.55)** 1.22 (1.00–1.50)* 2.43 (1.69–3.49)*** 2.51 (1.73–3.64)*** 2.65 (1.80–3.91)***

Note. HPV = human papillomavirus; Tdap = tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis booster; MMR = measles, mumps, and rubella; OR = odds ratio; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval; VFC = Vaccines for Children;

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

HPV vaccination assessed only among girls (n = 49,230). Outcomes for childhood vaccines refer to completion of the vaccine series (i.e., three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, two doses of MMR, and two doses of varicella).