Abstract
PURPOSE: The 2001 & 2005 ACC/AHA Guidelines for Heart Failure (SHF) recommend vaccination (VAC) for influenza (FLU) and for pneumococcal pneumonia. Nationally, rates of VAC for FLU in elderly patients was 65.5% in 2003 and was 62.7% in 2004. For high risk adults, including SHF patients, rates over the same time-periods were low at 34.2% and 25.5% respectively. In fiscal year 2002, a quality improvement project regarding VAC for both FLU and pneumonia in SHF was undertaken. We report the 3 year results regarding VAC of SHF patients in an indigent rural SHF disease management clinic.
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