Immunization Services Model for Adult Rate Improvement (ImmuSMART)

ImmuSMART is a study of personalized telephonic prompts to community pharmacy patients to improve adult vaccination rates for pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccines.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pharmacy; Immunization; Vaccines
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Telephonic prompt

Detailed Description

This study will investigate immunization rate improvement among adult patients in 250 northeastern US community pharmacies as a result of telephonic prompts during regular automated outbound communiqués. There will be three projects assessing different forms of these appended prompts-appointment-based medication synchronization automated prompts, refill ready automated prompts, and refill reminder automated prompts. Each intervention will occur in one of three pharmacy chains, each with approximately 10,000 patients randomized to control or intervention (receive prompt or no).

Prior to the outbound automated call to the patient, a third-party technology vendor (Scientific Technologies Corporation) will perform an automated immunization status assessment of the patient by submitting a query the state immunization registry to compare the adult patient's existing immunization record to the CDC Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule. Gaps in immunizations that fall within pharmacy scope of practice will be identified. During the automated call (performed by VoicePort, a pharmacy telephonic support vendor) to the patient, they will be prompted to receive identified immunization gap vaccines upon their next pharmacy visit, with priority on pneumococcal, influenza, and herpes zoster vaccinations. If the patient accepts, the vaccination will be delivered when next the patient comes to visit the pharmacy.

After 6 months of running the trial, statistical modeling will be employed to assess vaccination rate differences between control and intervention patients.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 22301
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 19 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient at least 19 years of age at date of enrollment
• Patient not in long-term care, hospice or otherwise identified as unable to come to pharmacy for receipt of vaccine
• Patient currently missing a record of receipt of at least one of three vaccinations: flu, pneumonia, or shingles
• Patient enrolled in telephonic pharmacy reminder service

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention; Patients who are either appointment-based medication synchronization calls, refill ready calls, or refill reminder calls at the pharmacy who have been identified as missing at least one vaccination. These patients will receive a telephonic prompt to get a vaccination.	Behavioral: Telephonic prompt; Other Names: Appended message
No Intervention: Control; Patients who are either appointment-based medication synchronization calls, refill ready calls, or refill reminder calls at the pharmacy who have been identified as missing at least one vaccination. These patients will receive usual pharmacy care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Vaccination rates	Administration of vaccine will be assessed at 3 months after patient receives the prompt	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 31, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 31, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): March 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 17, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 17, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): November 20, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 27, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 25, 2017
• Last Verified: April 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Pro00014163