3217.0 Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
This informative session covers a broad range of topics in infectious disease epidemiology. Presentations include discussions of a proposed clinical categorization schema for chronic Lyme disease, compliance with a quarantine order during a hypothetical influenza epidemic, infection control in US hospitals, Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis in symptomatic emergency department patients and an evidence-based hepatitis C risk assessment card.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the frequency with which patients presenting for evaluation of chronic Lyme disease are not classifiable by recently proposed categories. 2. Assess predictors for quarantine behavior in the case of a pandemic flu epidemic. 3. Explain the risk factors for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea in symptomatic emergency department patients.
Moderator:
Elquemedo Oscar Alleyne, MPH

Introductory Remarks
12:35 PM
Evaluating a clinical categorization schema for chronic Lyme disease
Alison Schwarzwalder, MPH, Sheila West, PhD and John N. Aucott, MD
12:50 PM
If you ask them, will they come? Predictors of quarantine compliance during a hypothetical avian flu epidemic: Results from a statewide probability survey
Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH, Sheryl Burt Ruzek, PhD, MPH, Lawrence Ward, MD, MPH, Thomas F. Gordon, PhD, Alexandra Hanlon, PhD, Alice Hausman, PhD, MPH and Michael Hagen, PhD
  
1:05 PM
Surveying Organizational Characteristics in the Implementation of Infection Control in US Hospitals
Ann F. Chou, PhD, MPH, Kimberly McCoy, MS and Bradley Doebbeling, MD, MSc
  
1:20 PM
Risk factors for infection with Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea in symptomatic emergency department patients
Edmond Hooker, MD, DrPH, Sarah McDonough, BS, Jennifer Steinbrunner, BS, Raul Vasquez, MD and Larry Gray, PhD
  
1:35 PM
Creating an evidence-based hepatitis C risk assessment card: The Harlem Hepatitis C Task Force
Donald Gardenier, DNP, Nirah Johnson, LMSW, Natalie Kil, MPH and Thomas G. McGinn, MD MPH
  
Discussion

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Organized by: Epidemiology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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