Improving Influenza Vaccination in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Vaccination rates remain low among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) despite guideline recommendations and evidence-based publications. Reported barriers include perceived lack of benefit, fear of side effects, and inconvenience. At our IBD center we follow approximately 1700 patients. During the 2019-2020 influenza season, our vaccination rate for the entire IBD population was 40.3% and 45.5% for those receiving biologic therapies at our infusion center (n=772). We developed a quality improvement initiative to evaluate vaccination practices and to determine effective strategies to increase vaccine uptake.

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