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MANAGING INCIDENTS PRESENTING ACTUAL
OR POTENTIAL RISKS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH:
Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of Incident Control Teams
Annex 6
A TEMPLATE FOR AN INCIDENT CONTROL TEAM REPORT
1.
INTRODUCTION
A brief summary of the incident and setting the scene. Details of ICT and other relevant organisational arrangements. Brief description of how incident recognised, immediate measures taken and the timings of these.
2.
BACKGROUND
If necessary, background information on features of actual or likely clinical cases, incubation period, dose, source and modes of exposure, diagnosis and treatment, and if relevant, prevalence of the relevant disease locally, nationally and globally.
3.
INVESTIGATION OF THE INCIDENT
3.1
Epidemiological
i Descriptive:
description of initial cases, case definition and hypothesis generation, enhanced surveillance
ii. Analytical:
description of any case control and/pr cohort studies.
3.2
Environmental
details of investigation/detection of main routes of exposure, sources of these, if possible levels of exposure and circumstances leading to exposure
3.3
Microbiological/Toxicological
local labs, reference labs, etc, clinical, food/water and environmental samples
3.3 .
Results
Epidemiological
Environmental
Microbiological/toxicological
4.
CONTROL MEASURES
4.1 Prevention of further exposure to hazardous agent (primary and secondary) - including details of relevant enforcement/regulatory action
4.2 Care of cases
5.
COMMUNICATIONS
5.1 Intra and inter agency communications
5.2 Communications with the public (including media handling)
6.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
7.
LESSONS LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDICES (if necessary)
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