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- Title
The Use of DMAIC to Improve Quality Vaccination Recommendations in Chain Community Pharmacies.
- Authors
Patel, Urvi; Kumar, Sajeesh
- Abstract
Community pharmacies provide the convenience and ease of administrating vaccinations outside traditional settings. Vaccinations are health initiatives that protect communities and improve health outcomes in all populations. Despite their accessibility and supporting clinical data, various influential factors contribute to the current suboptimal rates of vaccine administration. Given the common barriers to vaccine administration, this research narrows down to address a specific barrier and attempts to implement a method that focuses on improving vaccine rates in community pharmacies. This research is a case study that utilizes the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) model of Lean Six Sigma and aims to use this quality improvement process to identify, measure, analyze, and implement a training program to facilitate pharmacists in high-quality vaccine recommendations to promote higher rates of pneumococcal vaccinations in community settings.
- Subjects
TENNESSEE; STREPTOCOCCAL disease prevention; VACCINATION; INFERENTIAL statistics; IMMUNIZATION; DRUGSTORES; ATTITUDE (Psychology); RESEARCH methodology; PNEUMOCOCCAL vaccines; COMMUNITY health services; INTERVIEWING; VACCINE effectiveness; QUALITY assurance; VACCINE hesitancy; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; CONTENT analysis; INSURANCE
- Publication
Perspectives in Health Information Management, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1559-4122
- Publication type
Article