ORTP Guidance
Excerpt to provide quick access to recommendations from the ORTP Guidance related to infection prevention and control strategies. The full guidance should be read for overall context.
ORTP Guidance
Tables and guides that can be downloaded, completed with individual/facility information, saved to a desktop, and printed.
CMS
Regulatory framework for provision of emergency care regardless of ability to pay, with specific response regarding EVD. Includes requirements for screening for infectious disease, isolation, contacting public health, and deferring to public health guidance. Reviews the EMTALA Screening Obligation that every hospital or critical access hospital (CAH) with a dedicated emergency department is required to conduct an appropriate medical screening examination (MSE) of all individuals who come to the ED.
CDC
Direction for frontline healthcare facilities, Ebola assessment centers, and Ebola treatment centers:
CDC
Recommendations for PUIs and confirmed patients in healthcare settings (PPE and environmental controls)
CDC
Reviews modes of influenza transmission, fundamental elements to prevent transmission, recommendations:
| CDC and the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) |
Updated information on emerging infectious diseases of global importance. Map with highlighted areas with suspected outbreak activity. Users can select links to obtain more information and reports from government and public health agencies.
WHO
Organized by WHO Disease Outbreak News (DON) to provide:
Commissioned by Public Health England to give up-to-date information on global outbreak surveillance. Can be searched by country or disease and provides links to external governmental websites. Information is gathered by different sources including government reports, international organizations, and media reports, and each is accompanied with a verification status.
Joint communication and data collection network organized by the International Society of Travel Medicine and CDC. Reports and data available, and an extensive bibliography with references on global health infectious disease surveillance and emerging infectious diseases.
New Microbiologica
International Society for Disease Surveillance
Syndromic surveillance including uses, data types, syndrome groupings, data analysis and evaluation, response algorithms, and the clinician’s role:
OSHA
Specific to pandemic influenza. Addresses transportation to the hospital and the diagnostic and research laboratory setting. Table summarizes administrative and engineering controls, stratified by presence or absence of patient screening for a respiratory illness.
CDC
List of considerations and summary of environmental controls for persons under investigation (PUIs) for Ebola
WHO 2014
Guidance for acute respiratory infection, ranging from routine to the epidemic, with brief but specific and well-referenced section on environmental controls:
CDC
Recommendations for PUIs and confirmed patients in healthcare settings (PPE and environmental controls)
CDC
High-level checklist to optimize preparedness, including both administrative and environmental controls. Created for SARS, but adaptable to other pathogens.
Based on Toronto’s SARS experience at New York General Hospital, including converting nearly constructed hospital wings to SARS wards. Facility capacity and adapting spacing for triage. 4 steps for building preparation and engineering to maintain readiness.
Loutfy MR, Wallington T, Rutledge T, et al. Hospital Preparedness and SARS. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2004;10(5):771-776. doi:10.3201/eid1005.030717.71-776
OSHA
Integrated into the OSHA guidance for environmental controls, includes:
CDC
High-level checklist to optimize preparedness, including both administrative and environmental controls. Created for SARS, but adaptable to other pathogens.
OSHA
Integrated into the OSHA guidance for environmental controls, includes:
WHO Europe
Checklist written for 2009 pandemic influenza. Resource for outbreak preparedness, mostly related to administrative controls
CDC
Specific to Ebola. Table of infection prevention and control recommendations to prevent transmission. Rows in table include:
OSHA
Applicable regulations and standards for:
Emory University
Approaches for healthcare facilities, used nationally, from Emory Healthcare, the first facility to successfully care for an Ebola patient in the US
CDC
8 elements of standard precautions with links to the published guidelines for each topic area
WHO
Summarizes the elements of standard precautions and briefly describes the core components and recommendations for each element; available in several languages
CDC
High-level checklist to optimize preparedness, including both administrative and environmental controls. Created for SARS, but adaptable to other pathogens.
May L. Case Study: The Toronto SARS II Experience. Chapter in Hunting and Gleason. Essential Case Studies in Public Health: Putting Public Health into Practice. Jones and Bartlett Publishers