Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights that complications and mortality associated with infectious diseases increase with age. Various vaccines are recommended for adults, but coverage rates remain suboptimal. Although co-administration would improve vaccine uptake and timely immunization, this is...
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| author | Paolo Bonanni Robert Steffen Jörg Schelling Lina Balaisyte-Jazone Inga Posiuniene Maciej Zatoński Pierre Van Damme |
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| description | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights that complications and mortality associated with infectious diseases increase with age. Various vaccines are recommended for adults, but coverage rates remain suboptimal. Although co-administration would improve vaccine uptake and timely immunization, this is not routine practice in adults. We review key data on co-administration of vaccines in children and adults to reassure healthcare providers about its safety and advantages. In European countries and the United States, combined tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis boosters as well as meningococcal and human papillomavirus vaccines are recommended for healthy adolescents and adults of certain ages. Vaccination against influenza (annually), pneumococcal disease, and herpes zoster is recommended for older adults and specific risk groups. While co-administration is well established in children, it is less common in adults. Travelers can also receive multiple co-administered vaccines. Pediatric and travel vaccine co-administration has a well-established positive benefit-risk profile and is an efficient and cost-saving strategy to improve coverage. Healthcare providers could more often recommend and practice vaccine co-administration; this would not risk patient safety and health, would improve protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, and would help comply with national vaccination calendars. Recommending bodies may consider revising vaccination schedules to reduce the number of visits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ae02dd178bb3434c88e016ecb58a96122023-09-26T13:25:49ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2023-01-0119110.1080/21645515.2023.21957862195786Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coveragePaolo Bonanni0Robert Steffen1Jörg Schelling2Lina Balaisyte-Jazone3Inga Posiuniene4Maciej Zatoński5Pierre Van Damme6University of FlorenceUniversity of ZurichLudwig-Maximilians-UniversityGSKGSKGSKUniversity of AntwerpThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights that complications and mortality associated with infectious diseases increase with age. Various vaccines are recommended for adults, but coverage rates remain suboptimal. Although co-administration would improve vaccine uptake and timely immunization, this is not routine practice in adults. We review key data on co-administration of vaccines in children and adults to reassure healthcare providers about its safety and advantages. In European countries and the United States, combined tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis boosters as well as meningococcal and human papillomavirus vaccines are recommended for healthy adolescents and adults of certain ages. Vaccination against influenza (annually), pneumococcal disease, and herpes zoster is recommended for older adults and specific risk groups. While co-administration is well established in children, it is less common in adults. Travelers can also receive multiple co-administered vaccines. Pediatric and travel vaccine co-administration has a well-established positive benefit-risk profile and is an efficient and cost-saving strategy to improve coverage. Healthcare providers could more often recommend and practice vaccine co-administration; this would not risk patient safety and health, would improve protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, and would help comply with national vaccination calendars. Recommending bodies may consider revising vaccination schedules to reduce the number of visits.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2195786healthcare providerimmunizationvaccine uptakesimultaneousconcomitantprimary care |
| spellingShingle | Paolo Bonanni Robert Steffen Jörg Schelling Lina Balaisyte-Jazone Inga Posiuniene Maciej Zatoński Pierre Van Damme Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics healthcare provider immunization vaccine uptake simultaneous concomitant primary care |
| title | Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| title_full | Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| title_fullStr | Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| title_short | Vaccine co-administration in adults: An effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| title_sort | vaccine co administration in adults an effective way to improve vaccination coverage |
| topic | healthcare provider immunization vaccine uptake simultaneous concomitant primary care |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2195786 |
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