Case Finding and Line Listing: A Guide for the Investigator (FOCUS, Volume 1.4)
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Length: 40 minutes
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This focus issue discusses the importance of case finding and line listing, challenges that arise while collecting relevant information, and proper management of the data.
Target Audience
These trainings are applicable to all public health, medical, veterinary, pharmacy, emergency management, hospital and other professionals interested in public health preparedness and field epidemiology. The periodicals and supplemental material are created by doctoral students and graduates of the UNC-CH Department of Epidemiology and reviewed by UNC-CH School of Public Health faculty and topic experts.
Educational Objectives
- Discuss the importance of case finding and line listing
- Discuss strategies to identify cases and common challenges during the process
- Discuss how to collect and use the information gathered
- Discuss the creation and management of a line listing
Competencies and Capability Functions Addressed
This training addresses selected applied epidemiology, core public health, and public health preparedness and response competencies and public health preparedness capability functions as noted below. (Please note: The following training does not provide comprehensive or in-depth treatment of specified competencies or capability functions, it provides basic knowledge of the competencies or capability functions listed below.)
| Applied Epidemiology Competencies Tier 1 |
| Conduct investigation as directed (I.C.6) |
| Applied Epidemiology Competencies Tier 2 |
| Use investigation techniques consistent with the public health problem (I.C.6) |
| Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals |
| 4) Uses methods and instruments for collecting valid and reliable quantitative and qualitative data (1: Analytic/Assessment Skills) |
| Public Health Preparedness & Response Core Competencies |
| 2.5. Manage the recording and/or transcription of data according to protocol. |
References
CDC. Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome -- New Mexico. MMWR 1989; 38 (45): 765-767.
Maillard JM et al. First Case of Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax, Florida, 2001: North Carolina Investigation. EID 2002; 8 (10): 1035-1038.
Dwyer DM and Groves C. Outbreak Epidemiology. In: Nelson KE, Masters Williams C, Graham NMH, eds. Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2001: 119-148.
CDC. EXCITE: Epidemiology in the Classroom. How to Investigate an Outbreak: Steps of an Outbreak Investigation, 2002.
(http://www.cdc.gov/excite/classroom/outbreak_steps.htm#step6).
CDC. Summary of Notifiable Diseases-United States, 2001. MMWR 2003; 50 (53): 100-108.
Breuer T, Benkel DH, Shapiro RL et al. A Multistate Outbreak of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Infections Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts Grown from Contaminated Seeds. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2001 ;7 (6): 997-982.
CDC. Outbreaks of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium Associated With Veterinary Facilities ---Idaho, Minnesota, and Washington, 1999. MMWR 2001; 50 (33): 701-4.
Author:
Reviewers:
Amy Nelson, MPH, PhD, Focus Workgroup
The author(s) and reviewer(s) of this training have no personal financial relationships with commercial interests relevant to this presentation to disclose.
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