For Clinicians & Practices: Patient Catch-Up Planner

For clinicians and practices

Some families ask for a slower pace than the routine schedule. This free planner turns the CDC's own catch-up rules into a printable visit-by-visit draft that a parent can bring to you to review. It never replaces your judgment, and every dose placement is a proposal.

Key takeaways

It places each dose no earlier than the CDC minimum age and minimum interval, and never past a hard limit such as the rotavirus age cutoffs.
It models healthy children only. It does not handle immunocompromise, prematurity-specific timing, active outbreaks, post-exposure prophylaxis or clinical contraindications.
Parents print a one-page plan and a visit record to bring to you. Nothing they type is sent to us unless they opt in to an encrypted synced copy.
Content is reviewed against CDC, AAP, FDA and state sources and dated; corrections are logged publicly.

What families bring you

A parent enters a birth date, any doses already given, a pace (for example one or two vaccines per visit) and a finish date such as school entry. The planner returns a list of visits with the vaccines proposed for each, a summary of doses, and a visit-record page with space for the brand, date, lot number and your initials. Parents can also record the date each dose was actually given or skipped.

How the dates are decided

Minimum ages and minimum intervals come from the CDC catch-up schedule and the schedule notes, not from a preferred pace.
Doses a child no longer needs because of age are removed using the CDC's rules, and the plan says so.
When a plan cannot finish by the chosen date without breaking a minimum, the planner says so instead of compressing doses.
A parent can move a dose by hand; the planner blocks placements before a CDC minimum and warns about soft concerns.

Where it needs your judgment

Please review every plan. It cannot know a child's medical history, a family's exposure risks, local outbreaks or products your practice stocks. Read who should not use this tool and the disclaimer. Delaying doses lengthens the time a child is unprotected, a trade-off the planner states on screen.

Sending a patient to the right setting

Open the planner (English) or el planificador (Spanish).
Two per visit and one per visit start with those settings already chosen.
Printable schedule and the state school requirements are separate pages families can read first.

How to cite this page

VaxScheduler. For clinicians and practices. IN2Labs. https://vaxscheduler.com/for-clinicians/. Content last reviewed [object Object].

Corrections

If you find a placement or a source that is wrong, please write to support@in2labs.dev. Fixes are logged on the changelog and described in our editorial policy.