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Step One

Published on Sep 23, 2016

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Suspect patient has tuberculosis (TB) (Klompas et al., 2012).
Conduct lab tests and further assessments to confirm diagnosis (Klompas et al., 2012).

Inform Community Health Department (Arizona Department of Health Services [AZDHS], n.d.).
Diseases like TB need to be reported within 24 hours (AZDHS, n.d.).

The State Health Department proceeds with an investigation on possible TB outbreak (Staes, Wilson, & Lenert, 2014).
Pertinent information is gathered and sent to the CDC (Staes, Wilson, & Lenert, 2014).

The CDC identifies a confirmed TB outbreak and assembles a task force (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014).
Emphasis placed on those infected and at risk to prevent exposure (CDC, 2014).

Electronic laboratory reporting (Dixon, McGowan, & Grannis, 2011).
Alerts to health department about confirmed infectious diseases like TB (Dixon, McGowan, & Grannis, 2011).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014). Tuberculosis outbreak detection and response. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tb/education/ssmodules/pdfs/module9.pdf
Arizona Department of Health Services (n.d.) Communicable Disease Reporting: Healthcare Providers. Retrieved from http://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease control/index.php#reporting-providers
Dixon, B. E., McGowan, J. J., & Grannis, S. J. (2011). Electronic laboratory data quality and the value of a health information exchange to support public health reporting processes
Klompas, M., McVetta, J., Lazarus, R., Eggleston, E., Haney, G., Kruskal, B.. … Platt, R. (2012). Integrating clinical practice and public health surveillance using electronic medical record systems. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42(6), 154- 162. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.04.005
Staes, C., Wilson, M., & Lenert, L. (2014). Public Health Informatics. Chapter 11. In R. Nelson and N. Staggers (Eds.) Health informatics: An interprofessional approach, (1st ed., pp.178-195). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.