DEVELOPMENT OF TARGET RANGES FOR SELECTED PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN THE CIFOR GUIDELINES

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• Corporate Authors:
  Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (U.S.) ; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The CIFOR Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response were developed as a comprehensive source of information on foodborne disease investigation and control for state and local health departments. The Guidelines included measurable indicators of effective surveillance for enteric diseases and for response to outbreaks by state and local public health officials. The performance indicators were intended to be used by agencies to evaluate the performance of their foodborne disease surveillance and control programs. However, the Guidelines stopped short of providing specific targets for individual metrics, to avoid their use as a score card enabling crossagency comparisons.
  
  Since publication of the Guidelines in 2009, funders and public health leaders have placed more emphasis on health agency performance, accountability and transparency. Therefore, the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) identified a need to develop target values to help state and local public health agencies demonstrate their performance and effectiveness conducting foodborne disease surveillance and outbreak control activities. Given the distributed public health system, with multiple independent jurisdictions, performance targets will also provide a framework for communicating best practices for surveillance activities and create clear performance expectations that will increase the likelihood of compliance.
  
  This project was developed in response to a request for proposals by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on behalf of CIFOR. The overall project goals were to develop a set of core indicators feasible for all states to measure and explanations of how to do so and why. These were to be based on the performance indicators in Chapter 8 of the CIFOR Guidelines and on indicators developed and used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foodborne Diseases Centers for Outbreak Response Enhancement (FoodCORE). The project was intended to provide justifications for the specific target values, based on public health importance.
  
  This document was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 1U38HM000414-05 from CDC. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.
  
  CIFOR_MetricsReport14_FINAL.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control/methods Disease Outbreaks/prevention & Control Foodborne Diseases/prevention & Control Food Contamination/analysis Public Health Surveillance/methods
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement Number 1U38HM000414-05
• Pages in Document:
  70 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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