Past Updates from the Clinician Registry Listserv:
Update Sent December 12, 2005
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UPDATES TO INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE
The following updates were made to CDC information and guidance from December 5-12, 2005, or reflect current events. If you have any questions on these or other clinical issues, please write to us at coca@cdc.gov.
Today's topics Include:
- COCA Conference Call Replay - Avian Influenza
- Pandemic Influenza
- Avian Influenza
- Seasonal Influenza
- Clinical Laboratory Testing
COCA Conference Call Replay – Avian Influenza
In case you missed our last COCA call on avian influenza, you can utilize the replay number until December 20th by calling (800) 819-5743.
PowerPoint slides from the call are available from the following link: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca/confcall.asp
Information for Health Professionals
A compilation of resources and information provided to clinicians for their use in discussing pandemic influenza with patients and providing care in case of spread of this agent to the United States.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/healthprofessional.htm
Business Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/pdf/businessChecklist.pdf
State and Local Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic/pdf/PandemicFluChecklist.pdf
Guidelines and Recommendations
Interim guidance for airline cleaning crew, maintenance crew, and baggage/package and cargo handlers for airlines returning from areas affected by avian influenza A (H5N1).
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/avian_flu_airlines_cleaning_update_120505.htm
Flu Activity
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm
MMWR Report on Good Laboratory Practices
Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), simple, low-risk tests can be waived and are performed with no routine regulatory oversight in physicians’ offices, nursing homes, home health agencies, community clinics, pharmacies, and other healthcare settings in the U.S. Since CLIA was implemented, waived testing has steadily increased with respect to both the facilities that perform the testing, and the numbers and types of tests that are waived. Surveys of waived testing practices conducted between 1999-2004 by the CMS and studies funded by the CDC during 1999-2003 indicated that although waived testing sites generally take measures to perform testing correctly, there are quality and patient safety concerns about practices that could lead to errors in testing and result in adverse patient outcomes. As a result of these concerns, in February 2005, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) provided recommendations regarding good laboratory practices for waived testing sites, which served as the basis for a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Recommendations and Reports manuscript. To see the full document please go to:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5413a1.htm
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