Saturday, 8 March 2014

Pertussis Immunization Rates Increased by Changes in Hospital Orders

A study in the March issue of the iAmerican Journal of Obstetrics (and) Gynecology/i reveals that changing the hospital orders for women who have just delivered a child led to a 69% increase in the new mothers' pertussis vaccination rate. This provided protection for the mothers and their newborns against the disease, commonly known as whooping cough. Sylvia Yeh, MD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher and corresponding author ...




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