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Methodology
1) Permission was obtained to undertake the study from Rhode Island Hospital Institutional Review Board (hyperlink to IRB page). The study proposal was approved under an expedited review process
because the study only looked at existing records and removed all patient identifiers.
2) The dates of Hepatitis B , Measles-Mumps-Rubella, diptheria/Tetanus and Varicella vaccinations will were obtained from a computerized immunization administration database. Brown undergraduates reviewed all of the patient’Äôs charts to confirm the dates entered for vaccinations. Most of the dates for the vaccines could be found on the state vaccine sheet in the front of the chart. However all vaccines were confirmed if possible in the notes for the date of visit. Some patients had no vaccine record or the vaccine record had been lost or their chart could not be found.
3) The accuracy of the chart review was checked and corrections entered into the computer database. The results were analyzed by the computer database and transferred to an Excel file.
All patient identifiers were stripped by the data analysis phase, and all analysis of the data was done on site.
4) From these results, the different factors were compared to see the overall coverage of the vaccines, whether the vaccines were administered according to the proper schedule and to
determine which populations are not or have not completed vaccination.
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