Communicating about vaccination
Claire Glenton is a Professor of evidence-based practice at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). She is an experienced systematic review author and has a particular interest in systematic review methodology, including methods for disseminating the results of systematic reviews and methods for synthesising qualitative research.
Simon Lewin is a Professor of health management and health systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. His work includes systematic reviews of complex health system interventions and he has undertaken a number of syntheses focused on vaccination.
Summary
Summary
Communication with their healthcare worker can help older people make decisions about vaccination. Healthcare workers’ perceptions and experiences of communicating with older adults on this topic is explored in a recent Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis. In this video, two authors of this synthesis, Simon Lewin from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Claire Glenton from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, discuss why they did the review and what they found.