National surveillance of dialysis-associated diseases in the United States, 1999

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• Personal Author:
  Tokars, Jerome I. ; Miller, Elaine ; Alter, Miriam J. ; Arduino, Matthew J.
• Description:
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been conducting surveillance of hemodialysis-associated hepatitis since the early 1970s (1), when CDC reported that the incidence of HBV infection among patients and staff during 1972-1974 had increased by more than 100%, to 6.2% and 5.2%, respectively. These early surveys had only a 50% to 65% response rate of centers listed by the National Dialysis Registry. In an effort to obtain a higher response rate, and thus more complete information, CDC initiated a cooperative program with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) in 1976 that provided for a questionnaire from CDC to be included in HCFA's annual facility survey. As a result of this collaboration, the response rates to the CDC questionnaire now exceed 90%.
  
  dialysis99.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Bacterial Infections/Prevention & Control Bacterial Infections/Transmission Blood-Borne Pathogens Infection Control/Standards Opportunistic Infections/Prevention & Control Renal Dialysis/Standards Virus Diseases/Prevention & Control Virus Diseases/Transmission
• Document Type:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  46 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6b2a029725bc8bc1eb19fa7c8c9ca34a9f15d68d7a5a1327d930d8b062daa300
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39411/cdc_39411_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 310.91 KB ]