Healthcare investigation guide : recommended steps for investigating single cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) that are suspected to be related to healthcare delivery

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  This toolkit provides a framework for use by state and local health departments to investigate possible healthcare-associated viral hepatitis transmission events, particularly those involving only a single patient. Investigation of these single cases is an important public health response as it can result in the identification of an outbreak or unsafe clinical practices that are putting additional patients at risk.
  
  These steps are intended to address a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care settings but not specifically transplant or transfusion-related HBV or HCV transmissions, for which additional guidance is under development.
  
  healthcareinvestigationguide.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Algorithms Cross Infection Disease Outbreaks Hepatitis B/transmission Hepatitis C/transmission
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  7 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b9474b50cf6e1faa76931c1b7068291de8974ba5d58d28aba28f13b8d766fa13
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49805/cdc_49805_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 62.19 KB ]