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Professionals
Patients
Vaccine recommendations
Guides to vaccines
Screening questionnaires
Talking with parents about vaccines
Provide and document vaccination
Hepatitis-specific materials
Vaccine handling and storage
Q&As about diseases and vaccines
Vaccine/disease-specific
Standing orders
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Professionals - Vaccine Recommendations
patient materials
Summary of recommendations for childhood and adolescent immunization
Three-page reference table on appropriate use, scheduling, and contraindications of childhood vaccines [#P2010]
Summary of recommendations for adult immunization
Three-page reference table on appropriate use, scheduling, and contraindications of adult vaccines [#P2011]
Healthcare personnel vaccination recommendations
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Recommendations in brief [#P2017]
 
Before you vaccinate adults, consider their "H-A-L-O"!
Easy-to-use chart for adult vaccination [#P3070]
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Professionals - Screening Questionnaires
patient materials
Screening questionnaire for child and teen immunization
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Form your patients fill out to help you evaluate which vaccines can be given at that day's visit, includes information sheet for professionals [#P4060]
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Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
Screening questionnaire for adult immunization
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Form your patients fill out to help you evaluate which vaccines can be given at that day's visit, includes information sheet for professionals [#P4065]
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Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
Screening questionnaire for injectable influenza vaccination
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Form your patients fill out to help you evaluate if influenza vaccine can be given at that day's visit, includes information sheet for professionals [#P4066]
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Translations: Spanish
 
Screening questionnaire for intranasal influenza vaccination
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Form your patients fill out to help you evaluate if influenza vaccine can be given at that day's visit, includes information sheet for professionals [#P4067]
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Translations: Spanish
 
Should you be vaccinated against hepatitis A? (for adults)
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Use this questionnaire to assess your patients' risk factors [#P2190]
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Should you be vaccinated against hepatitis B? (for adults)
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Use this questionnaire to assess your patients' risk factors [#P2191]
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Should you be tested for hepatitis C? (for adults)
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Use this questionnaire to assess your patients' risk factors [#P2192]
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Translations: Spanish
 
Do I need any vaccinations today?
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Two-page screening questionnaire for adult patients to find out about what shots they need [#P4036]
 
Brief sex history questionnaire
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Form for clinicians to follow when obtaining patient history [#P4401]
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Professionals - Provide and Document Vaccinations back to top
patient materials
How to administer IM and SC injections
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Two-sided information sheet with illustrations [#P2020]
How to administer IM and SC injections to adults
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One-page information sheet with illustrations [#P2020A]
Vaccine administration record for children and teens
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Keep children and teens' immunization records in the front of their medical charts on this handy, one-page sheet [#P2022]
Vaccine administration record for adults
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Keep adult patients' immunization records in the front of their medical charts on this handy, one-page sheet [#P2023]
It's federal law! You must give your patients current VISs
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Everything you need to know about VISs [#P2027]
The facts about using VISs
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One-page information sheet reviewing myths and truths about the use of VISs [#P2028]
Suggestions to improve your immunization services
For use in both pediatric and adult health settings [#P2045]
 
Suggested supplies checklist for immunization clinics
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One-page form, lists vaccines, VISs, supplies, and emergency kit [#P3046]
 
Suggested supplies checklist for adult immunization clinics
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One-page form, lists vaccines, VISs, supplies, and emergency kit [#P3047]
 
Notification of vaccination letter
Form letter to primary care clinic [#P3060]
 
Guide to contraindications and precautions to adult vaccines
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One-page table listing contraindications and precautions [#P3072]
 
Guide to contraindications and precautions to commonly used vaccines
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Two-page reference table listing contraindications and precautions [#P3072A]
 
Administering Vaccines: Dose, route, site, and needle size (for adults)
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One-page reference table [#P3084]
 
Administering Vaccines: Dose, route, site, and needle size (for children and teens)
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One-page reference table [#P3085]
 
Vaccines and biologics used in U.S. and foreign markets
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Table to help providers interpret vaccination records from other countries [#P5120]
 
Translation of foreign vaccine-related terms into English
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Table to help providers interpret vaccination records from other countries [#P5121]
 
Quick chart of vaccine-preventable disease terms in multiple languages
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Two-page table displays most of the vaccine-preventable disease terms in 16 languages [#P5122]
 
IAC quiz #1: Immunization
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Nine true/false questions for clinic staff [#P7001]
 
IAC quiz # 2: Vaccine Administration
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Nine true/false questions for clinic staff [#P7002]
 
Skills checklist for immunization
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Source: California Department of Health Services [#V2020]
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Professionals - Vaccine Handling and Storage back to top
patient materials
Checklist for safe vaccine handling and storage
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Twenty important things you can do to safeguard your vaccine supply [#P3035]
 
Don't be guilty of these errors in vaccine storage and handling
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Rundown of frequently reported errors [#P3036]
 
Temperature log for vaccines: Fahrenheit
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Four-page Fahrenheit temperature log to post on your refrigerator [#P3039]
 
Temperature log for vaccines: Celsius
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Four-page Celsius temperature log to post on your refrigerator [#P3039A]
 
Vaccine handling tips
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Outdated or improperly stored vaccines won’t protect patients! [#P3048]
 
Maintaining the cold chain during transport
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Instructions for handling vaccines [#P3049]
 
Emergency response checklist
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What to do in case of a power failure [#P3051]
 
Do not unplug sticker (color)
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Sticker for clinic refrigerators [#R2090]
 
Do not unplug sticker (black&white)
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Sticker for clinic refrigerators [#R2090]
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Professionals - Vaccine/Disease-Specific back to top
patient materials
Give these people influenza vaccine
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One-page checklist to help you decide who to vaccinate [#P2013]
First do no harm -- protect patients by making sure all staff receive yearly influenza vaccine!
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Summary of CDC’s HICPAC / ACIP recommendations [#P2014]
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23): CDC answers your questions
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One-page Q&A, with a table about revaccination [#P2015]
 
Declination of influenza vaccination
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Form for employers of healthcare workers to sign if the healthcare worker declines influenza vaccination [#P4068]
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Translations: Spanish
 
Hospitals and doctors sued for failing to immunize
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Seven lawsuits against physicians and hospitals [#P2060]
 
Hospitals and doctors sued for failing to protect newborns from HBV transmission
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Rundown of cases [#P2061]
 
States report hundreds of medical errors in perinatal hepatitis B prevention
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Results from IAC's surveys [#P2062]
 
Hepatitis A and B vaccines... be sure your patient gets the correct dose!
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Recommended child and adult dosages of licensed hepatitis A and B vaccines [#P2081]
 
Unusual cases of hepatitis B virus transmission
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Rundown of cases [#P2100]
 
Hepatitis B and the healthcare worker
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How to protect healthcare workers, includes post-exposure prophylaxis guidelines and new Q & A's [#P2109]
 
Hepatitis B Facts: Testing and vaccination
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List of high-risk groups, interpretation of the hepatitis B panel, and a glossary of hepatitis B terminology [#P2110]
 
Give the birth dose... Hepatitis B vaccine at birth saves lives!
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Open letter from IAC urging the following organizations to support the birth dose: ACIP, AAP, ACOG, NMA, National Asian Pacific Islander Task Force on Hepatitis B Prevention, AHA by Deborah L. Wexler, MD, Executive Director, Immunization Action Coalition [#P2125]
 
Two more infants chronically infected with HBV... the medical errors continue
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Summary of cases [#P2127]
 
Medical errors put infants at risk for chronic HBV virus infection
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Rundown of six cases [#P2128]
 
Management of chronic hepatitis B in adults
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Author: B.J. McMahon, MD, Alaska Area Native Health Service, Anchorage, AK [#2161]
 
Does your patient have chronic hepatitis B?
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Author: Coleman Smith, MD, Minnesota Gastroenterology, Minneapolis, MN [#2162]
 
What the physician can do to help the child with chronic HBV infection
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Author: S.J. Schwarzenberg, MD, Univ. of Minnesota [#2170]
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Professionals - Standing Orders back to top
patient materials
Standing Orders: Medical management of vaccine reactions in adult patients
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Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3082]
 
Standing Orders: Medical management of vaccine reactions in children and teens
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Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3082A]
 
Standing Orders: Guidelines in labor & delivery and nursery units to prevent HBV
For HBsAg screening in labor and delivery units and hepatitis B immunization in newborn nurseries [#P2130]
 
Standing Orders: Inactivated Polio (IPV) vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3071]
 
Standing Orders: DTaP vaccine administration to children under 7
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children under 7 who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3073]
 
Standing Orders: Influenza vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3074]
 
Standing Orders: Influenza vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3074A]
 
Standing Orders: Pneumococcal vaccine (PPV23) administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3075]
 
Standing Orders: Pneumococcal vaccine (PPV23) administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3075A]
 
Standing Orders: Hepatitis B vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3076]
 
Standing Orders: Hepatitis B vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3076A]
 
Standing Orders: Hepatitis A vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3077]
 
Standing Orders: Hepatitis A vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3077A]
 
Standing Orders: Td/Tdap vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3078]
 
Standing Orders: Td/Tdap vaccine administration to child and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3078A]
 
Standing Orders: MMR vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3079]
 
Standing Orders: MMR vaccine administration to child and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3079A]
 
Standing Orders: Chickenpox (varicella) vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3080]
 
Standing Orders: Chickenpox (varicella) vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3080A]
 
Standing Orders: Meningococcal vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3081]
 
Standing Orders: Meningococcal vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3081A]
 
Standing Orders: Hib vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3083]
 
Standing Orders: Pneumococcal vaccine (PCV7) administration to children
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3086]
 
Standing Orders: Rotavirus vaccine administration to infants
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate infants who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3087]
 
Standing Orders: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine administration to children and teens
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate children and teens who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3090]
 
Standing Orders: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3091]
 
Standing Orders: Zoster vaccine administration to adults
Eligible health professionals may vaccinate adults who meet any of the criteria on this form [#P3092]
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Patients - Guides to Vaccines back to top
patient materials
Immunizations for babies -- A guide for parents
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Picture of the shot schedule [#P4010]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
When do children and teens need vaccinations?
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Picture of the shot schedule [#P4050]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
Vaccinations for adults -- you're never too old to get immunized!
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Table covering all adult vaccinations [#P4030]
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Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
If you have HIV infection, which vaccinations do you need?
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Visual table of shots recommended for HIV-infected adults [#P4041]
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Translations: Spanish
 
Are you 11-19 years old? Then you need to be vaccinated!
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Covers all vaccinations for teenagers [#P4020]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
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Patients - Talking with Parents about Vaccines back to top
patient materials
Vaccines and autism
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Author: Paul A. Offit, MD [#P2065]
 
Thimerosal and autism
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Author: Paul A. Offit, MD [#P2066]
 
Reliable sources of immunization information
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Brochure listing IAC’s top choices for reliable information (8/07) [#P4012]
 
After the shots... what to do if your child has discomfort
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Tips for parents, includes information about medication that reduce pain and fever [#P4015]
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Translations: Spanish | Japanese | Turkish
 
What if you don't immunize your child?
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Two-page brochure outlining the consequences of not immunizing your child [#P4017]
 
Questions parents ask about baby shots
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Brochure about childhood vaccination [#P4025]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese
 
MMR vaccine does not cause autism
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Rundown of studies that refute any connection between MMR and autism [#P4026]
 
Vaccines work!
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CDC statistics demonstrate dramatic declines in vaccine-preventable diseases when compared with the pre-vaccine era [#P4037]
 
Vaccine concerns
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Authors: Paul Offit, MD, and Louis M Bell, MD [#P4038]
 
Unusual cases of hepatitis B virus transmission
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Rundown of cases [#P2100]
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Patients - Hepatitis-Specific Materials back to top
patient materials
If you have hepatitis C, which vaccinations do you need?
One-page sheet describes vaccinations that HCV-positive adults need [#P4042]
Translations: Spanish
 
All kids need hepatitis B shots!
Brochure that tells parents all children 0–18 years old need hepatitis B shots [#P4055]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Hmong | Korean | Russian
Tagalog | Vietnamese
 
Hepatitis A, B, C: Learn the differences
One-page table explaining the differences [#P4075]
 
Hepatitis A is a serious liver disease. Vaccination can protect you
Brochure for all ages [#P4080]
 
Questions frequently asked about hepatitis B
Four pages of commonly asked questions [#P4090]
Translations: Spanish
 
Every year, thousands of people are infected with hepatitis B virus, including teens!
Brochure for teens and parents [#P4100]
 
Hepatitis B shots are recommended for all new babies
Brochure for parents of newborns [#P4110]
Translations: Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | French | Korean <