Elements and Performance Criteria
- Initiate data gathering for quick assessment
- Relevant persons within affected organisation are liaised with, to inform and gain consent for quick assessment to occur
- Factors affecting the complexity of the quick assessment are determined
- Information regarding events leading up to, during or after a disease outbreak occurring are obtained from those involved using appropriate data collection methods
- Persons assisting with quick assessment are tasked and provided with appropriate guidance to enable them to assist independently
- Environmental measurementsand testing to support quick assessment are performed
- Information gathered by others is facilitated into the overall epidemiologic quick assessment
- Analyse epidemiologic data
- Events are constructed into a time line to identify initial causative incident
- Causative incidents are analysed to identify the nature of the disease causing the outbreak
- Epidemiologic data is analysed to identify the spread of disease and to classify the proportions of the disease outbreak
- Factors relating to disease outbreak are compared to treatment information and organisation's response to the disease outbreak
- Specialist authorities are contacted as required to seek expert advice or opinion to aid the assessment of disease
- Report assessment findings and implement disease control measures
- Assessment findings are discussed and agreed upon with personnel assisting in the quick assessment
- Range of control measures are identified which specifically address factors relating to disease outbreak
- Assessment findings are recorded and communicated to relevant personnel along with immediate control measures aimed at stopping the spread of disease within the organisation
- Disease control measures are integrated with the wider environmental health support plan to apply the lessons learned in the disease outbreak to other operating areas and groups