Coordination Costs for School-Located Influenza Vaccination Clinics, Maine, 2009 H1N1 Pandemic

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• Alternative Title:
  J Sch Nurs
• Personal Author:
  Asay, Garrett R. Beeler ; Cho, Bo-Hyun ; Lorick, Suchita A. ; Tipton, Meredith L. ; Dube, Nancy L. ; Messonnier, Mark L.
• Description:
  School nurses played a key role in Maine's school-located influenza vaccination (SLV) clinics during the 2009-2010 pandemic season. The objective of this study was to determine, from the school district perspective, the labor hours and costs associated with outside-clinic coordination activities (OCA). The authors defined OCA as labor hours spent by staff outside of clinic operations. The authors surveyed a convenience sample of 10 school nurses from nine school districts. Eight nurses responded to the survey, representing seven districts, 45 schools and 84 SLV clinics that provided a total of 22,596 vaccine doses (H1N1 and seasonal combined) to children and adolescents. The mean total OCA time per clinic was 69 hours: out of total hours, 22 (36%) were spent outside regular clinic operation time. The authors estimated the mean cost of OCA to be $15.36 per dose. Survey respondents reported that costs would be lower during non-pandemic seasons and as schools become more proficient at planning clinics.
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Health Care Costs Health Care Surveys Humans Immunization Programs Influenza, Human Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Maine Public Health School Health Services School Nursing

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• Keywords:
  Economic Evaluation H1N1 Influenza Pandemic School-located Vaccination Clinics School Nurse Vaccination
• Source:
  J Sch Nurs. 28(5):328-335
• Pubmed ID:
  22691394
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11587888
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:10ebbd0418cc7956fcfff94df1358b94eaafaae92fca044a2e0471dee636c67aa73cc646d09cc8d94e7b8114949aa8aec73ea83957f83efa1bc3015355004cf1
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