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Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Elevated Blood Lead Levels



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  • Personal Author:
    Stanbury, Martha
  • Description:
    Statement of the Problem: CSTE position statement 07-EC-02 recognized the need to develop an official list of nationally notifiable conditions and a standardized reporting definition for each condition on the official list. (1) The position statement also specified that each definition had to comply with American Health Information Community recommended standards to support "automated case reporting from electronic health records or other clinical care information systems." In July 2008, CSTE identified sixty-eight conditions with existing Position Statements that warranted inclusion on the official list, including elevated blood lead levels, each of which requires a standardized reporting definition to support the surveillance case definition. CSTE initially adopted two position statements on public health surveillance for lead exposure in 1995: "Adding Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Young Children as a Condition Reportable to the National Public Health Surveillance System" and "Adding Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among Adults as a Condition Reportable to the National Public Health Surveillance System." (2) (3) The latter was revised in 1999 and retitled "Surveillance Case Definition for Adult Blood Lead Levels to be Reported to the National Public Health Surveillance System." (4) CSTE approved the position statement "Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Elevated Blood Lead Levels" in 2009. (5) Subsequently, national consensus has emerged that the definition of "elevated" should be reduced from 10 ug/dL to 5 ug/dL or greater in adults and children. CDC and CSTE recognize that adverse health effects can occur at blood lead levels lower than 10 ug/dL. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Publisher:
    Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Report
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    1-14
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20061567
  • Citation:
    Atlanta, GA: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 15-EH-01, 2015 Dec; :1-14
  • Email:
    stanburym@michigan.gov
  • CAS Registry Number:
    Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2016
  • Performing Organization:
    Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20110701
  • Source Full Name:
    Public health reporting and national notification for elevated blood lead levels
  • End Date:
    20190630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:2f3660f2f665c212ddf8fb41136de15cdb35c818ace3da7270d543c1629007c91ef39e27dd55f666c794a69c8086edd1ca3d2e3ff909412f4558c4d9727ae969
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