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Childhood Immunization Availability in Primary Care Practices-Reply
William J. Hueston, MD
Eau Claire (Wis) Family Medicine Clinic
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(2):97-98.
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In reply
I am pleased to respond to the comments of Allen and Vernon regarding the recent article1 that was written by my coworkers and me and published in the ARCHIVES.
First, I would like to address my comments to Allen's letter. From my own experience in practice in Kentucky where this program is still in use, the state agencies charged with overseeing the Medicaid vaccine program did not provide any promotion, education, or coercion to physicians who volunteered for this relatively simple program. The state agency simply mailed the physicians the vaccines, the physicians kept track of whom they gave the vaccines to, and they mailed the state agency a list each month. If this is the case in other states (as I suspect it is), then the provision of vaccine supplies is the most likely impetus for the increase in availability of immunizations in physicians' practices.
As Vernon points
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