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Auditing the management of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks: the need for a tool
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Author:
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Torner Gràcia, Núria; Carnicer-Pont, Dolors; Castilla, Jesús; Cayla, Joan; Godoy i García, Pere; Domínguez García, Àngela; Epidemiological Surveillance Working Group of Catalonia and Navarre
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Public health activities, especially infectious disease control, depend on effective teamwork. We present the results of a pilot
audit questionnaire aimed at assessing the quality of public health services in the management of VPD outbreaks. Audit
questionnaire with three main areas indicators (structure, process and results) was developed. Guidelines were set and each
indicator was assessed by three auditors. Differences in indicator scores according to median size of outbreaks were
determined by ANOVA (significance at p#0.05). Of 154 outbreaks; eighteen indicators had a satisfactory mean score,
indicator ‘‘updated guidelines’’ and ‘‘timely reporting’’ had a poor mean score (2.846106 and 2.4461.67, respectively).
Statistically significant differences were found according to outbreak size, in the indicators ‘‘availability of guidelines/
protocol updated less than 3 years ago’’ (p = 0.03) and ‘‘days needed for outbreak control’’ (p = 0.04). Improving availability
of updated guidelines, enhancing timely reporting and adequate recording of control procedures taken is needed to allow
for management assessment and improvement. |
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cc-by, (c) Torner et al., 2011
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
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Public Library of Science
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