Who Gives Parents the Materials? Who Discusses the Materials?
Respondents were asked to identify any office staff at their practice (eg, nurses, doctors, clerks, etc) who gave or discussed immunization materials. Physician and nurse responses were combined to produce a global picture of office staff activities and are presented in Table 4. Reported activities indicated that physicians were likely to discuss materials but not give them, whereas nursing support staff both gave and discussed materials. Separate stratified analyses were conducted and are not shown here. These analyses showed that nurses’ reports of physician activities were consistent with physician reports. However, physicians’ reports of nursing activities significantly underestimated the frequency of discussion of risks/benefits reported by nurses (P < .01). View this table: [in this window] [in a new window] TABLE 4 Reports by All Respondents of Which Office Staff Give and Discuss Any Vaccine Information With Parents Respondents were asked to rate from 1 to 10 how confident (10 =
