Needle length selection for intramuscular vaccine administration: Time for an evidence-based approach

Marjan Doppen; Ciléin Kearns; Nethmi Kearns; Thomas Hills; Gabrielle Shortt; Lesley Gray; Mark Weatherall; Nicole J. Moreland; Ali Mirjalili; Richard Beasley

doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2025.100657

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Needle length selection for intramuscular vaccine administration: Time for an evidence-based approach

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Needle length selection for intramuscular vaccine administration: Time for an evidence-based approach

Marjan Doppen, Ciléin Kearns, Nethmi Kearns, Thomas Hills, Gabrielle Shortt, Lesley Gray, Mark Weatherall, Nicole J. Moreland, Ali Mirjalili and Richard Beasley

Public health in practice, Vol.10, 100657

29/09/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2025.100657

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intramuscular vaccine administration

needle length

COVID-19

vaccine

intramuscular

The importance of needle length to ensure successful IM deposition of vaccines is poorly recognized. Clear, practical, and evidence-based guidance on how to select the optimal needle length for people receiving IM vaccines is a priority.

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Record Identifier: 9926778138701891
Title: Needle length selection for intramuscular vaccine administration: Time for an evidence-based approach
Creators: Marjan Doppen
Ciléin Kearns
Nethmi Kearns
Thomas Hills
Gabrielle Shortt
Lesley Gray
Mark Weatherall
Nicole J. Moreland
Ali Mirjalili
Richard Beasley
Publication Details: Public health in practice, Vol.10, 100657
Academic Unit: Primary Health Care (UOW); Medicine (UOW)
Publisher: Elsevier
Date published ; e-published: 29/09/2025
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2025. This work was first published in Public Health in Practice (Elsevier). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed to the creator(s) and the source, is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, and a link to the Creative Commons license is provided.
Language: English
Resource Type ; Subtype: Journal article