QI PROGRAMS / MOC IV

HPV QI Project

What are your HPV vaccination rates? The Ohio AAP’s HPV QI Project will empower physicians and other healthcare professionals with vaccine education, resources, and best practice standardization to ensure all 9-18 year olds in Ohio complete the vaccine series.

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General Information

HPV, or the human papillomavirus, can cause many different types of cancer in both boys and girls. It is estimated that the average number of men and women in Ohio diagnosed with a HPV-related cancer each year is more than 1,100. HPV immunization can prevent the majority of cervical cancers as well protect against the virus types that cause head and neck cancers in both males and females.

Currently less than half of Ohio adolescents are fully vaccinated with the HPV immunization, which is recommended at age 11 or 12 for both boys and girls. Nearly 80 million doses of HPV immunization have been distributed in the U.S. since the HPV vaccine was approved by the FDA in 2006 and it has been shown to be safe and effective.

The Ohio AAP’s HPV Quality Improvement Program will build upon the success of past efforts to improve our understanding of how providers and families understand and make decisions about HPV immunization. Using “personas” to guide discussions with families, providers will learn more about best practices for effective communication and supporting patients to improve HPV immunization rates in their practices.

QI Project

Practices who provide HPV vaccinations to adolescents will be eligible to apply for participation. Participants in the 7-month QI project will receive:

Generous stipend to support office staff time

25 Points of MOC Part IV Credit

Assistance to maximize your vaccine reimbursement

QI Coach and team support

Learning collaborative to share challenges and success with peers across Ohio & other states

Data reports to measure your changes

Contact Lory Sheeran Winland, MPA at lwinland@ohioaap.org to receive more information or complete the information request at the bottom of this page.

History

Improving health by ensuring providers are prepared to confidently recommend childhood immunizations is a long-term objective of the Ohio AAP. Beginning with the Maximizing Office Based Immunizations (MOBI) program more than 20 years ago, the Ohio AAP expanded work to include adolescent immunizations in many programs since 2014. These programs have often focused on the HPV vaccine as a safe and effective means of preventing HPV and the many cancers associated with the HPV virus.

Using more than seven years of adolescent immunization expertise and input from hundreds of families and providers, the most recent efforts to improve adolescent immunization in Ohio have focused on developing talking points through interviews with families and providers. Using a “persona” system, Ohio AAP has developed strategies around non-judgmental conversations based on the current understanding of HPV immunizations by patients and providers.

Program Outcomes for Wave One include:

Engaged 19 practices in Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia to implement HPV immunization best practices
Improved vaccine completion, vaccine administration, and vaccine discussion rates
Increased provider confidence in addressing HPV vaccine hesitancy
Created educational rack card for parents and adolescents

HPV QI INFORMATION REQUEST

HPV QI Wave 2 Registration Form 2023

HPV Practice Information and Physician Leader:

Practice Name: *

Practice Address (including city, state, and zip):

Physician Leader Name *

Physician Leader Credentials *

Physician Leader Email Address *

Physician Leader Preferred Telephone Number

Physician Leader MOC Recertification Date (2018, 2019, etc.)

Number of participating providers in practice

Additional Office Manager or Administrative Contact

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Last Name

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HPV QI INFORMATION REQUEST

HPV QI Wave 2 Registration Form 2023

HPV Practice Information and Physician Leader:

Additional Office Manager or Administrative Contact

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Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics