CDC’s Standards for Adult Immunization Practice (SAIP)
CDC’s Standards for Adult Immunization Practice call on ALL healthcare professionals — whether they provide vaccinations or not — to take steps to help ensure that their adult patients are fully immunized. These steps are outlined below.
ASSESS immunization status of all your patients at every clinical encounter.
Stay informed. Get the latest CDC recommendations for immunization of adults.
Implement protocols and policies. Ensure that patients’ vaccine needs are routinely reviewed and patients get reminders about vaccines they need.
Strongly RECOMMEND vaccines that patients need.
Share tailored reasons why vaccination is right for the patient.
Highlight positive experiences with vaccination.
Address patient questions and concerns.
Remind patients that vaccines protect them and their loved ones against a number of common and serious diseases.
Explain the potential costs of getting sick.
ADMINISTER or REFER your patients to a vaccination provider.
Offer the vaccines you stock.
Refer patients to providers in the area that offer vaccines that you don’t stock.
DOCUMENT vaccines received by your patients.
Participate in your state’s immunization registry. Help your office, your patients, and your patients’ other providers know which vaccines your patients have had.
Follow up. Confirm that patients received recommended vaccines that you referred them to get from other immunization providers.
