Publications by authors named "Karen G Todd"

Background And Objectives: US health departments routinely conduct in-person quality improvement (QI) coaching to strengthen primary care clinics' vaccine delivery systems, but this intervention achieves only small, inconsistent improvements in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Thus, we sought to evaluate the effectiveness of combining QI coaching with remote provider communication training to improve impact.

Methods: With health departments in 3 states, we conducted a pragmatic 4-arm cluster randomized clinical trial with 267 primary care clinics (76% pediatrics).

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Introduction: The Announcement Approach using presumptive announcements increases human papillomavirus vaccine uptake. This study seeks to understand the impact of the final Announcement Approach steps-easing parents' vaccine concerns and then encouraging them to get human papillomavirus vaccine for their children-on parents' human papillomavirus vaccine hesitancy and confidence in the vaccine's benefits.

Methods: In 2017-2018, investigators recruited an online national sample of 1,196 U.

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Unlabelled: : media-1vid110.1542/5972295740001PEDS-VA_2018-1872 OBJECTIVES: We sought to identify effective responses to parents' questions and concerns about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

Methods: In 2017-2018, we surveyed a national sample of 1196 US parents of children aged 9 to 17 years.

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