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CDC Experts Answer 1,000+ Vaccine-related Questions at Immunize.org
April 2016
Technically Speaking
Monthly Column by Deborah Wexler, MD
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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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
CDC Experts Answer 1,000+ Vaccine-related Questions at Immunize.org
Published April 2016
Information presented in this article may have changed since the original publication date. For the most current immunization recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, visit www.immunize.org/acip/acip_vax.asp.
Ask the Experts, a long-standing and ever-popular feature of the Immunization Action Coalition’s (IAC) website for healthcare professionals, has been one of the most highly visited destinations on www.immunize.org since IAC’s website was launched in 1994. For more than 20 years, vaccine experts from CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases have been working closely with IAC to answer questions about the use of vaccines that come up every day in medical practices across the United States.
Over the years, IAC has published these Q&As in Needle Tips, our quarterly flagship publication for healthcare professionals, as well as in Vaccinate Adults, an abbreviated version of Needle Tips for adult medicine specialists. The Q&As also appear in every issue of IAC Express, our free email news and information service which is sent out every Wednesday to more than 50,000 healthcare professionals.
Whether you are looking for answers to questions about dosing intervals when a patient has fallen behind schedule, what to do when a vaccine is given too early, or which influenza vaccine is most appropriate to use for a particular patient, you’ll likely find what you’re looking for at www.immunize.org/askexperts.
Here are some of the most popular Ask the Experts Web pages:
