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Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?

BACKGROUND: Although total influenza vaccine doses available in the 2005/2006 influenza season were over 80 million, CDC received many reports of delayed and diminished vaccine shipments in October to November of 2005. To better understand the supply problems, CDC and partners surveyed several healt...

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Autores principales: Bardenheier, Barbara H, Strikas, Raymond, Kempe, Allison, Stokley, Shannon, Ellis, Jean
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1871587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17480227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-66
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author Bardenheier, Barbara H
Strikas, Raymond
Kempe, Allison
Stokley, Shannon
Ellis, Jean
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Strikas, Raymond
Kempe, Allison
Stokley, Shannon
Ellis, Jean
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description BACKGROUND: Although total influenza vaccine doses available in the 2005/2006 influenza season were over 80 million, CDC received many reports of delayed and diminished vaccine shipments in October to November of 2005. To better understand the supply problems, CDC and partners surveyed several health care professional groups. METHODS: Surveys were sent to representative samples of influenza vaccine providers including pediatricians, internists, federally qualified health centers, visiting nurse organizations, and all 64 state and other health departments receiving federal immunization funds directly. In November and December, 2005, providers were asked questions about their experience in ordering influenza vaccine, sources where orders were placed, proportion of orders received, and referral of patients to other vaccination sites. RESULTS: The number of providers surveyed (median: 154; range: 64 – 308) and response rates (median: 62%; range: 51% – 77%) varied among groups. Less than half of the providers in most groups placed a single order that was accepted (median: 31%; range: 8% – 53%), and most placed multiple orders. Only 57% of federally qualified health centers and 60% of internists reported they received at least 40% of their orders by the middle of December; the other provider groups received a greater proportion of their orders. Most internists (80%) and federally qualified health centers (54%) reported that they had referred priority group patients to other locations to receive the influenza vaccine due to inadequate supplies. Vaccine providers who ordered only from Chiron received a lower proportion of their orders than providers that ordered from another source or ordered from multiple sources. CONCLUSION: Most of the providers surveyed received only part of their orders by the middle of December. Disruptions in receipt of influenza vaccine during the fall of 2005 were due primarily to shortfalls in vaccine from Chiron and also due to delays and partial shipments from other distributors.
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spelling pubmed-18715872007-05-17 Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short? Bardenheier, Barbara H Strikas, Raymond Kempe, Allison Stokley, Shannon Ellis, Jean BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Although total influenza vaccine doses available in the 2005/2006 influenza season were over 80 million, CDC received many reports of delayed and diminished vaccine shipments in October to November of 2005. To better understand the supply problems, CDC and partners surveyed several health care professional groups. METHODS: Surveys were sent to representative samples of influenza vaccine providers including pediatricians, internists, federally qualified health centers, visiting nurse organizations, and all 64 state and other health departments receiving federal immunization funds directly. In November and December, 2005, providers were asked questions about their experience in ordering influenza vaccine, sources where orders were placed, proportion of orders received, and referral of patients to other vaccination sites. RESULTS: The number of providers surveyed (median: 154; range: 64 – 308) and response rates (median: 62%; range: 51% – 77%) varied among groups. Less than half of the providers in most groups placed a single order that was accepted (median: 31%; range: 8% – 53%), and most placed multiple orders. Only 57% of federally qualified health centers and 60% of internists reported they received at least 40% of their orders by the middle of December; the other provider groups received a greater proportion of their orders. Most internists (80%) and federally qualified health centers (54%) reported that they had referred priority group patients to other locations to receive the influenza vaccine due to inadequate supplies. Vaccine providers who ordered only from Chiron received a lower proportion of their orders than providers that ordered from another source or ordered from multiple sources. CONCLUSION: Most of the providers surveyed received only part of their orders by the middle of December. Disruptions in receipt of influenza vaccine during the fall of 2005 were due primarily to shortfalls in vaccine from Chiron and also due to delays and partial shipments from other distributors. BioMed Central 2007-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1871587/ /pubmed/17480227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-66 Text en Copyright © 2007 Bardenheier et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stokley, Shannon
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title_full Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
title_fullStr Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
title_full_unstemmed Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
title_short Influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
title_sort influenza vaccine supply, 2005–2006: did we come up short?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1871587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17480227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-66
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