IPHS 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rock Island County, Illinois, Clinical Case Definition, Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
5 Mar 2017
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Chapter 19: whipping whooping cough in rock island county, illinois 203 (sanku, 2017) Dworkin along with a member of the immunization section of idph, chuck. Jennings, and the rock island county health department, and a rrt (rapid response team) Created a case definition first that was an alternative case definition to get bring in more cases. This was defined as a case only having a cough illness for at least 2 weeks and be reported by a health care provider. Also used a clinical case definition which was a cough illness lasting at least 2 weeks with one of the following: paroxysms of coughing, inspiratory whoop or posttussive vomiting, without other apparent cause (as reported by a health professional) Used active case finding by sending some of their team to review the medical records of the previous 2 months of the emergency department at trinity west.
