Quality improvement initiative boosts early HPV vaccine rates

A multipronged primary care quality improvement initiative increases early human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation across racial/ethnic, sociodemographic, insurance, and geographic groups, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, held from May 2 to 6 in Toronto. Caitlin Miller, from Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware Valley, Delaware, and colleagues analyzed trends in early HPV initiation by race/ethnicity, geography, insurance, and child opportunity index. The analysis included data from a primary care network serving 130,000 children. The researchers found that HPV Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Read More