Evaluation of a communications campaign to increase physician reporting to a surveillance system

Details

• Personal Author:
  Brissette IF ; Cummings, Kristin J. ; Gelberg KH
• Description:
  While all states have regulations requiring reporting of diseases from healthcare professionals and facilities, underreporting is substantial. To improve reporting to the New York State (NYS) Occupational Lung Disease Registry (OLDR), the NYS Department of Health's Bureau of Occupational Health initiated a multimedia campaign to increase case ascertainment and establish communication channels and partnerships for conducting prevention. The outreach campaign was successful in raising physician awareness about the OLDR, familiarizing physicians with reporting forms and procedures, and increasing physician reporting. It also raised awareness of the contribution of occupational factors to respiratory illness and other conditions. However, while our evaluation indicated it is possible to affect short-term outcomes, such as knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among health-care providers, the campaign was not as successful in promoting sustained reporting. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Behavior
  • Health Personnel
  • Occupational Diseases
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  • Health-care-personnel
  • Information-systems
  • Medical-personnel
  • Medical-surveys
  • Occupational-diseases
  • Occupational-exposure
  • Physicians
  • Work-operations
  • Behavior-patterns
• ISSN:
  0033-3549
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  19-27
• Volume:
  126
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038358
• Citation:
  Public Health Rep 2011 Jan-Feb; 126(1):19-27
• Contact Point Address:
  Kitty H. Gelberg, PhD, MPH, Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, Bureau of Occupational Health, New York State Department of Health, 547 River St., Room 230, Troy, NY 12180
• Email:
  khg01@health.state.ny.us
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Center of Environmental Health, Menands, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010701
• Source Full Name:
  Public Health Reports
• End Date:
  20060630
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192093/cdc_192093_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 386.11 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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