Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2022 Jan 1;19(1):1d. eCollection 2022 Winter.
Community pharmacies provide the convenience and ease of administrating vaccinations outside traditional settings. Vaccinations are health initiatives that protect communities and improve health outcomes in all populations. Despite their accessibility and supporting clinical data, various influential factors contribute to the current suboptimal rates of vaccine administration. Given the common barriers to vaccine administration, this research narrows down to address a specific barrier and attempts to implement a method that focuses on improving vaccine rates in community pharmacies. This research is a case study that utilizes the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) model of Lean Six Sigma and aims to use this quality improvement process to identify, measure, analyze, and implement a training program to facilitate pharmacists in high-quality vaccine recommendations to promote higher rates of pneumococcal vaccinations in community settings.
社区药房提供了在传统环境之外接种疫苗的便利和简易性。疫苗接种是保护社区和改善所有人群健康结果的健康举措。尽管它们具有可及性和支持性的临床数据，但各种有影响力的因素导致了当前疫苗接种率不理想的情况。考虑到疫苗接种的常见障碍，本研究缩小范围，针对特定障碍，并尝试实施一种方法，重点提高社区药房的疫苗接种率。这项研究是一项案例研究，利用精益六西格玛的 Define、Measure、Analyze、Improve、Control（DMAIC）模型，旨在利用这个质量改进流程来识别、衡量、分析和实施一项培训计划，以帮助药剂师做出高质量的疫苗推荐，从而提高社区环境中肺炎球菌疫苗的接种率。
