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Assessment of Digital and Community-Based Outreach Interventions to Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in an Underserved Community

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Non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and Hispanic patients have higher risk for COVID-19 infection and hospitalization,1,2 but have lower rates of COVID-19 vaccination3 because of factors such as limited access to care, lack of outreach, technology and language barriers, and mistrust of health systems.4 To address this, we conducted 2 concurrent interventions at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s vaccination site at the Armory, located in a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood in Northern Manhattan: (1) a digital redesign to restrict online self-scheduling for vaccination to local zip codes with underserved racial and ethnic minority patient populations4 and (2) direct outreach to educate and schedule patients through community-based organizations (CBO).4,5 Here we describe changes in race and ethnicity makeup of COVID-19 vaccine recipients before and after these interventions.

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Article Information

Accepted for Publication: April 29, 2022.

Published: June 22, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17875

Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License. © 2022 Diaz D et al. JAMA Network Open.

Corresponding Author: Daniela Diaz, MD, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, 610 West 158th St, New York, NY 10032 (dd2446@cumc.columbia.edu).

Author Contributions: Dr Ye had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Concept and design: All authors.

Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Diaz, Sperling, Louh, Ye.

Drafting of the manuscript: Chacko, Ye.

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.

Statistical analysis: Ye.

Administrative, technical, or material support: Chacko, Sperling, Fleck, Louh, Ye.

Supervision: Sperling, Ye.

Other: Fleck.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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