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. 2019 Jan 24;14(1):e0210648. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210648

Table 3. Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV)1 by reason for visit, Chad and Malawi, 2015.

Child-based MOV Dose-based MOV2
Total children with documented vaccination dates No. of children with 1+ eligible doses due Proportion of eligible children with 1+ MOV No. of eligible doses among children with 1+ eligible doses due Proportion of total eligible doses missed
n n % n % n n %
Chad
Vaccination visit 194 164 85 75 46 314 106 34
Non-vaccination visit
 Medical consultation 21 13 62 12 92 25 23 92
 Healthy child visit or check-up -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 Child is accompanying adult 5 3 60 3 100 7 7 100
 Other 7 6 86 5 83 9 8 89
 No reason reported 11 9 82 4 44 17 5 29
Non-vaccination visit total 44 31 70 24 77 58 43 74
Total 238 195 82 99 51 372 149 40
Malawi
Vaccination visit 131 96 73 30 31 253 59 23
Non-vaccination visit
 Medical consultation 223 83 37 80 96 165 159 96
 Healthy child visit or check-up 53 13 25 13 100 20 19 95
 Child is accompanying adult 39 18 46 16 89 37 34 92
 Other 28 11 39 8 73 20 13 65
 No reason reported 9 4 44 2 50 11 5 45
Non-vaccination visit total 352 129 37 119 92 253 230 91
Total 483 225 47 149 66 506 289 57

1Missed opportunity for vaccination (MOV): contact with health services by a child (or adult) who is eligible for vaccination (unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, or not up-to-date, and free of contraindications to vaccination), which does not result in the individual receiving all the vaccine doses for which he or she is eligible [9,10]

2MOV based on the total number of vaccine doses children are eligible for and administered per type of visit