| Technically Speaking |
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| Monthly Column by Deborah Wexler, MD |
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| Technically Speaking is a monthly column written by IAC’s Executive Director Deborah Wexler, MD. The column is featured in The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center’s (VEC's) monthly e-newsletter for healthcare professionals. Technically Speaking columns cover practical topics in immunization delivery such as needle length, vaccine administration, cold chain, and immunization schedules. |
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| Check out a recent issue of Vaccine Update for Healthcare Providers. The VEC e-newsletter keeps providers up to date on vaccine-related issues and includes reviews of recently published journal articles, media recaps, announcements about new resources, and a regularly updated calendar of events. |
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| TECHNICALLY SPEAKING |
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Immunization Platform for 16-year-olds Is Easily Overlooked — Here
Are Some Resources to Help! |
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October 2017 |
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To remind healthcare professionals that age 16 is an officially
recommended time for an immunization visit, ACIP highlighted
vaccines at this age when it published the
2017 Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and
Adolescents 18 Years or Younger. By adding gray shading to the
"16 years" column heading on the official schedule, ACIP
emphasized the importance of this age platform, on a par with the
previously established vaccination platforms at 4–6 years and
11–12 years (also gray shaded). The vaccines needed at 16 years of
age are MenACWY #2, MenB and influenza, and, if not already up to
date, HPV catch-up. To assist providers in communicating the important vaccines
recommended for 16-year-olds, the Immunization Action Coalition
and the Society for Adolescent Health and
Medicine (SAHM) have partnered to develop a new one-page handout
titled
"You’re 16…We recommend these vaccines for you!" that can be given to teen
patients or their parents. This patient education sheet utilizes a
colorful, easy-to-understand format to
describe the vaccines recommended at this age, as well as the
impacts of the diseases the vaccines protect against along with
the recommended number and timing of
doses.
This is the first patient educational tool designed specifically
to help inform patients and their parents about the important
immunization visit for 16-year-olds.
Immunization platform for 16-year-olds
Clinical tools
Additional immunization resources for adolescents and their
parents
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ACIP Recommendations
Vaccine Information Statements 
