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YOUR PATIENTS ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO START THE CONVERSATION

Incorporate a meningitis B (MenB) conversation into your protocol to help ensure you vaccinate all appropriate patients. In the shared clinical decision-making conversation, your vaccination recommendation is the most important factor in your patients’ decision to get vaccinated.1

Follow a simple, 3-step plan of action to prioritize shared clinical decision-making and vaccinate all appropriate patients:

  1. EDUCATE patients about meningococcal disease, the 5 vaccine-preventable serogroups, and how BEXSERO can help protect against MenB2-4
  2. START the BEXSERO vaccination series for your appropriate patients4
  3. SCHEDULE the doses needed to complete the series; send follow-up reminders to help patients complete the series

Prioritize shared clinical decision-making

Doctor Discussion

CDC recommends a MenB vaccination series for adolescents not at increased risk, aged 16-23 years (preferred age 16-18 years), based on shared clinical decision-making.5-7

Do your part—initiate the MenB conversation with all appropriate patients and their parents/guardians.

Successfully complete every patient’s MenB series

  • Follow the latest CDC MenB vaccination recommendation5-7
  • Monitor immunization rates in your practice using EHR reports
  • Create EHR reminder alerts to follow up with patients who are due for vaccination or series completion

Kim “I Survived”

  • Video transcript

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    Kim is a meningococcal disease Advocate. She is not a healthcare provider. This is her story in her own words. Kim was compensated by GSK for her participation in this program. This is one person’s experience. Other people’s experiences with meningococcal disease may be different. Vaccination may not protect all recipients.

     

    Kim:

     

    I’d say a few days before Spring Break, Lindsey called and wasn’t feeling real well. They diagnosed her with a virus, and we decided that she would come home and enjoy some good quality family time with Alan (her dad) and I and her older sister, Jordan. So, Alan and I were working in the yard and Lindsey had been laying down for a bit, and I thought, “You know, I should probably go check on her.” She was sleeping, and when I reached down to touch her skin, she was extremely warm. So, I reached down, and I put the thermometer under her arm, and—and it read 104. We immediately rushed her to the ER. I remember meningitis being mentioned multiple times. We just knew that she felt awful—awful. I remember pulling meningitis up on the internet, and I’ll never forget reading the description—that she could have organ damage. Pictures that showed this horrible petechiae rash with people missing limbs. And then reading that it could potentially take my daughter’s life. That’s scary. Eventually, Lindsey’s physician came in and confirmed that Lindsey had a diagnosis of meningococcal septicemia, serogroup B. Lindsey was in the hospital for 14 days, and it was probably the longest 14 days of my life, and we were so incredibly blessed that she recovered. If I would have known that there was a way to help prevent what happened to Lindsey, I would have taken it in a heartbeat. I want healthcare professionals to give moms and dads the information that we need to help protect our children.

     

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    Adolescents/young adults need vaccines to help protect against the 5 vaccine-preventable serogroups for meningitis—Men A, B, C, W, & Y. Vaccination may not protect all recipients.

     

    Kim:

     

    Please educate us about the types of vaccines needed to help protect against the five most common types of meningitis. So many people who experience meningitis, their children don’t make it. They don’t get that second chance.

     

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    BEXVID230048 November 2023

     

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Vaccination may not protect all recipients.

BEXSERO CPT CODE: 90620

CDC=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
EHR=electronic health record.