The American Academy of Family Phys...

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) freshly posted an online version of the approveed immunization schedule for children and adolescents from one side age 18 years in the United States for January 2004 end June 2004. The recommended schedule is a cooperative effort of the Center for Disease repress and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee forward Immunization Practices, the AAFP, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. The schedule, which is available at http://www.aafp.org/x7666.xml, continues only through June because it is rely uponed that a schedule for the secondary half of 2004 will include routine influenza vaccination for children from six month end 23 months of age. The recommendations also include a catch-up chart for patients whose immunizations were delayed. This childhood immunization schedule also was published in the January 1 2004 issue of American Family Physician (AFP). The adult immunization schedule is available at http://www.aafp.org/x14956.xml and was published in the December 15 2003 issue of AFP.

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