OBJECTIVE Rates of childhood immunizations and other preventive services are lower in many practices than national goals and providers' own estimates. Office systems have been used in adult settings to improve the delivery of preventive care, but their effectiveness in pediatric practices is unknown. This study was designed to determine whether a group of primary care practices in 1 community c...

BACKGROUND At child health visits, immunizations that are due are frequently not given. Increased parent understanding of and demand for immunizations may influence providers to not miss these opportunities. OBJECTIVE To assess, as part of a larger study of effectiveness of parent education and case management (CM) in raising immunization rates, the intervention's effectiveness at reducing mi...

Dendritic cells present microbial antigens to T cells after uptake of apoptotic vesicles from infected cells. We previously reported that immunizations with apoptotic HIV-1/murine leukemia virus (MuLV) infected cells lead to induction of both cellular and humoral immune responses as well as resistance to mucosal challenge with live HIV-1/MuLV infected cells. Here we extended those studies and i...

In Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu State in India, 384 final-year female students attending the Government College for Women completed a questionnaire so the researcher could assess their knowledge of prenatal and childhood immunizations, breast feeding, weaning, oral rehydration solution (ORS), and feeding during diarrhea. 53.2% were from an urban area, 17.9% from a semi-urban area, and 28.9% from a r...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine if children who contracted pertussis infection were more likely to have parents who refused pertussis vaccinations than a similar group of children who did not develop pertussis infection. METHODS We conducted a case-control study of children enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente of Colorado health plan between 1996 and 2007. Each pertussis c...