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. 2019 Feb 27;38(6):1797–1798. doi: 10.1007/s10067-019-04480-x

Correction to: Interventions to improve vaccine acceptance among rheumatoid arthritis patients: a systematic review

Vincent Gosselin Boucher 1,2, Ines Colmegna 3, Claudia Gemme 1,2, Sara Labbe 1,2, Sandra Pelaez 4, Kim L Lavoie 1,2,
PMCID: PMC6828509  PMID: 30810910

Correction to: Clinical Rheumatology

Table 1.

Intervention study details

Author [ref] Study design Outcome and target Provider sample RA patients (n) Intervention Comparison group Post-evaluation
Interventions targeting providers
Ledwich et al. [21] Pre-post quasi experimental intervention design Vaccination rates (patient) and Documentation of prescription (provider) Health care providers; physician, fellow, resident, or nurse practitioner (n not reported) 758 Electronic Health record (EHR) best practice alert (BPA) None Did not report
Desai et al. [22] Cluster, Controlled trial; Quality improvement intervention strategy Vaccination rates (number of patients up to date) (patient) Rheumatologists (n = 14) 3717 Point-of-care paper reminder forms 21 Rheumatologists Assessed monthly (for a median of 16 months)
Interventions targeting providers and patients
Baker et al. [23] Quasi-experimental: Pre-post system-level intervention for quality improvement Vaccination rates (patient) Rheumatologists and primary care physician (n = 8) 1255 Reminders to prescribe vaccination, performance feedback to physicians and letters to patients None Assessed monthly for 12 months
Sheth et al. [24] Pre-post quasi-experimental quality improvement intervention design Vaccination rates (patient) and documentation rate (provider) Physicians and staff (n not reported) 1554 Real-time electronic medical record (EMR) based alert system (BPA), coupled with patients and staff education and physician feedback and interval assessment None Did not report
Broderick et al. [25] Quasi-experimental, Pre-post multimodal intervention Decrease frequency of any missed opportunities for vaccination and vaccine attitude (0–100) (provider) Rheumatologists (n not reported) 197 Multimodal intervention using education session, EMR-based alerts and personalised e-mail reminders for patient None Assessed each 3 months for 12 months
Author [ref] Pre-intervention measures (HCPs) Post-intervention measures (HCPs) Pre-intervention measures (patients) Post- intervention measures (patients)
Interventions targeting providers
Ledwich et al. [21] NA NA Influenza vaccination rates: 47%; Influenza documentation: 47%; Pneumococcal vaccination rates: 19%; Pneumococcal documentation: 19% Influenza vaccination rates: 65%; Influenza documentation: 67%; Pneumococcal vaccination rates: 41%; Pneumococcal documentation: 45%
Desai et al. [22] NA NA Intervention group rates of patients who were up-to-date for pneumococcal: 67.6%; Control group rate: 52.3% Intervention group rates of patients who were up-to-date for pneumococcal: 80% (p < 0.006); Control group rate: 52.0% / (pre-post: p = 0.941)
Interventions targeting providers and patients
Baker et al. [23] Not reported Action ratea: first 2 months = 45–57%; months 3 to 5 = low of 38%; months 6–12 = 42–58% Influenza: Ever received (90.2%); in previous season (79.4%); Pneumococcal: Ever received (28.7%); Herpes Zoster: Ever received (2.5%) Influenza: Ever received (86.1%), in previous season (78.2%); Pneumococcal: Ever received (45.8%); Herpes Zoster: Ever received (4.5%)
Sheth et al. [24] Not reported “Among 1002 patients for whom the BPA appeared, 581 (58%) resulted in either a vaccination (252; 43% vaccinated, 21; 4% vaccine prescribed) or documentation of reasons the vaccine was not prescribed (308; 53%)” Herpes Zoster vaccination rates: 10.1%; vaccines documentation rates: 28% Herpes Zoster vaccination rates: 51.7% (p < 0.0001).; vaccines documentation rates: 72.9% (p < 0.0001).
Broderick et al. [25] NA NA Frequency of any missed influenza vaccination: 47%; vaccination attitude: 50 ± 9 Frequency of any missed influenza vaccination: 23% (p < 0.001); vaccination attitude: 51 ± 9

aThe proportion of patients who were seen by their rheumatologist who had: a vaccination given, a historical vaccination documented, or a documented medical or patient reason for not giving a vaccination

10.1007/s10067-019-04430-7

The original version of this article contained error. Table 1 was shown in the wrong version, thus corrected table is shown in this article. The original article has been corrected.

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