Hepatitis B: What Hospitals Need to Do to Protect Newborns |
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A comprehensive guide for implementing the hepatitis B birth dose |
| The Immunization Action Coalition's (IAC) comprehensive guidebook Hepatitis B: What Hospitals Need to Do to Protect Newborns is a complete resource for helping hospitals and birthing centers establish, implement, and optimize their birth dose policies. The book breaks new ground as a policy and best practices guide for newborn hepatitis B immunization.
AAFP, AAP, ACOG, and CDC endorse administering hepatitis B vaccine prior to hospital discharge and all have provided review of this guide. |
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Purchase or Download Birth Dose Guide |
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| “…The resources compiled by the IAC and being shared as part of this new initiative with all hospitals and birthing centers in the new resource, Hepatitis B: What Hospitals Need to Know to Protect Newborns, are important evidence-based tools and will complement other efforts to increase the proportion of hospitals and birthing centers that routinely administer the birth dose of the HBV vaccine across our nation, resulting in further reductions of new hepatitis B infections in infants…” - read HHS statement |
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| Dr. Howard K. Koh |
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| Assistant Secretary for Health |
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| U.S. Department of Health and Human Service |
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| Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll |
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| BIRTH DOSE HANDOUT |
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| Give birth to the end of Hep B |
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| Use this fact sheet on the importance of implementing a hepatitis B birth dose policy to garner support in your healthcare setting. |
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Hepatitis B
Collected resources and information about hepatitis B vaccine |
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ACIP Recommendations
Vaccine Information Statements 
