Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Author
King, Cora
Abstract
Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers are preventable if vaccinated. Opportunities to administer the HPV vaccination to adolescents were being missed with a rural, primary care clinic due to lack of vaccination status assessment protocols.
Methods: A missed opportunity for vaccination protocol was developed using the 4 Pillars™ Practice Transformation Program. Baseline vaccination rate for the clinic was determined using HPV billing reports.
Intervention: Staff were educated about HPV missed opportunities for vaccination for the first week of ten. Clinic Staff implemented a missed opportunity for vaccination protocol and evaluated it weekly for the remaining nine of 10 weeks.
Results: The clinic achieved a 0.025% vaccination rate with implementation of the missed opportunity for vaccination protocol. This percentage was lower than the clinics baseline vaccination rate of 28.3%. This percentage was also below the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80%.
Conclusion: Implementation of a missed opportunity for vaccination protocol developed using the 4 Pillars™ Practice Transformation Program was unsuccessful in helping this rural clinic achieve improved HPV vaccination rates for adolescents 9-17 years of age.
Date
2018-11-28
Citation:
APA:
King, Cora.
(November 2018).
Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative
(DNP Scholarly Project, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7004.)
MLA:
King, Cora.
Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative.
DNP Scholarly Project. East Carolina University,
November 2018. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7004.
October 01, 2023.
Chicago:
King, Cora,
“Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative”
(DNP Scholarly Project., East Carolina University,
November 2018).
AMA:
King, Cora.
Improving HPV Vaccination in Adolescents: A Quality Improvement Initiative
[DNP Scholarly Project]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
November 2018.
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