Collaborative Efforts to Increase Flu Vaccination (CollabFlu)
Influenza, Collaboration
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Influenza
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children age 6 mo - 18 yr in up to 20 practices
Exclusion Criteria:
- Infants under the age of 6 mo or adults over the age of 18
Sites / Locations
- Tri County Health dept
- Aurora Family Medicine
- Forum Family Medicine
- Premier Pediatrics
- Indian Crest Pediatrics
- Centennial Pediatrics
- Advanced Pediatrics
- Greenwood Pediatrics
- Pediatric Pathways
- Pediatrics 5280
- CIIS
- Hampden Medical Group
- Family Practice Clinic
- Ft. Morgan Medical Group
- Haxtun Family Medicine
- Valley Medical Center
- Jefferson County Health dept
- Kids First
- Denver West Pediatrics
- Focus on Kids
- Lone Tree Family Medicine
- Crown Point Pediatrics
- Northeast County Health Dept
- Mountain Land Pediatrics
- Pediatrics West
- Wray Clinic
- Yuma Clinic
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Other
Increasing flu vaccination
Usual care
Collect from billing records in the 10 intervention practice sites to test for an increase in the rate of receipt of ≥1 influenza vaccine during the post-intervention year compared to the pre-intervention year among children 6 months to 18 years during the season. The interventions include: 1. Develop practice-based intervention strategies (like use of reminder-recall of children due for influenza,2. Develop Private/public collaboration to increase flu vaccination between the intervention practices, their county public health department and visiting nursing associations, and 3. Implement both practice-based and private-public collaborative strategies in the intervention practices while monitoring only in the control practices
Patients in control practices will continue to receive usual care with no change in practice regarding influenza immunization delivery.