Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals
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| First Received Date ICMJE | November 28, 2006 | ||||
| Last Updated Date | November 28, 2006 | ||||
| Start Date ICMJE | September 2004 | ||||
| Primary Completion Date | Not Provided | ||||
| Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups. | ||||
| Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Same as current | ||||
| Change History | No Changes Posted | ||||
| Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
| Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
| Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
| Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
| Descriptive Information | |||||
| Brief Title ICMJE | Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals | ||||
| Official Title ICMJE | A Novel Approach To Improve Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial | ||||
| Brief Summary | The purpose of this study was to see if reminder letters and a large raffle prize would encourage health care workers to receive influenza vaccinations. |
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| Detailed Description | Eight hundred employees of an urban tertiary care hospital, 200 each from the following four categories: professional staff, resident physicians, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses comprised the study group. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive: 1) no intervention, 2) a reminder letter for flu vaccine, 3) a raffle ticket to win a free Caribbean vacation with flu vaccine administration, or 4) both the reminder letter and raffle ticket. We compared the proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups. |
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| Study Type ICMJE | Interventional | ||||
| Study Phase | Not Provided | ||||
| Study Design ICMJE | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Single Blind Primary Purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training |
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| Condition ICMJE | Influenza | ||||
| Intervention ICMJE | Behavioral: influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize | ||||
| Study Arm (s) | Not Provided | ||||
| Publications * | Not Provided | ||||
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* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline. |
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| Recruitment Information | |||||
| Recruitment Status ICMJE | Completed | ||||
| Enrollment ICMJE | 800 | ||||
| Completion Date | April 2005 | ||||
| Primary Completion Date | Not Provided | ||||
| Eligibility Criteria ICMJE | Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Gender | Both | ||||
| Ages | Not Provided | ||||
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers | Yes | ||||
| Contacts ICMJE | Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects | ||||
| Location Countries ICMJE | United States | ||||
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| NCT Number ICMJE | NCT00404664 | ||||
| Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE | IRB 7370 | ||||
| Has Data Monitoring Committee | Not Provided | ||||
| Responsible Party | Not Provided | ||||
| Study Sponsor ICMJE | The Cleveland Clinic | ||||
| Collaborators ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
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| Information Provided By | The Cleveland Clinic | ||||
| Verification Date | November 2006 | ||||
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