Objective: To measure the correctness of decisions concerning counter-indications to vaccination (CV), taken by Primary Care professionals involved with the vaccination programme; to identify their associations with personal or organisational variables; and to sound out professionals' views on the source of false counter-indications and training for the programme.
Design: A crossover study.
Setting: Primary care centres in the city of Málaga and its metropolitan area.
Participants: 173 nurses and 68 doctors from these centres.
Interventions: A questionnaire to professionals about their clinical decisions and views of CV.
Results: The worse average score was that recorded in the clinical situation involving live virus vaccines (634 points out of 1,000) and whooping cough vaccination (791 points). General counter-indicative items reached a higher score (865).
Conclusions: Professional criteria on CV must be brought up to date and unified.