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Capturing for On Demand
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INFD-Infectious Disease/HIV

COMM-Communication

PUBL-Public Health

Optimizing Immunization Practices: Your Role, Your Impact

Monday, May 19, 2025
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM  
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Room 401
CE: 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME
Pharmacology Capturing for On Demand Potential State Requirement

Vaccine-preventable infectious diseases continue to pose significant health burdens globally, with vaccines preventing both morbidity and mortality. Despite the importance of vaccinations, immunization rates amongst adults are suboptimal. This session will review the risk factors, clinical features and epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases. In addition, the numerous factors influencing vaccine uptake at the patient, provider, and system levels will be discussed. This session will equip healthcare professionals with tools, communication strategies, and practical solutions to improve adult vaccine uptake in primary care.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Articulate the risk factors, clinical features, epidemiology and burden of disease associated with prevalent vaccine preventable infectious diseases
  • Recognize patient-specific, provider-related, and systemic barriers to vaccine uptake and develop strategies to overcome these obstacles in the primary care setting
  • Summarize the current vaccine recommendations, including available clinical immunization resources
  • Select evidence based strategies to increase immunization rates in their patient populations, considering factors such as vaccine hesitancy, patient education and workflow integration within the primary care setting