On April 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) released
"General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization: Best Practices
Guidance of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
(ACIP)" as an online only publication. It is also accessible
in
HTML format. This new guidance document replaces ACIP's
General Recommendations on Immunization, which was last published
in 2011 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
"General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization" goes deep into
the "how-to" issues of providing vaccination services, with much
more detailed information than is available in the
vaccine-specific recommendations published by ACIP. The updated
ACIP guidance is intended to help vaccination providers become
adept at multiple aspects of vaccine delivery, and includes
chapters/sections on the following:
By releasing "General Best Practice Guidelines for
Immunization" as an online-only publication, CDC will be able to
update the guidance more quickly, giving vaccination providers the
most up-to-date information on vaccination practice issues.
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Continuing education (CE) credit is available for reading
"General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization."
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