Tools

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Case Classification Diagrams for Enteric Conditions

These flowcharts are designed to streamline the process of classifying enteric disease cases.

Outbreak Response Costing Application (ORCA)

The Outbreak Response Costing Application (ORCA) offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help health departments effectively track, estimate, and report the costs associated with outbreak responses.

Ingredient-specific Analysis Guidance

This ingredient-specific analysis guidance document describes what they are, when to use them, the steps to take perform one, and provides examples.

NORS Form 2023 – fillable

This is a fillable version of the 2023 updated NORS form (CDC 52.14).

Outbreak Questionnaire Library

A library of outbreak questionnaires

Outbreak Source Prediction Tool

The Outbreak Source Prediction Tool is a resource for public health professionals to help with hypothesis generation during an enteric disease outbreak investigation.

Cluster/Outbreak Summary Template

The Cluster/Outbreak Summary Template is a tool that local and state health agencies can use to help document and summarize outbreaks for reporting purposes.

Norovirus Outbreak Management Toolkit

This toolkit is designed as a reference for norovirus outbreaks and investigations.

Environmental Assessment Field Guides

The field guide is a tool for environmental health professionals to use when doing environmental assessments during foodborne outbreak investigations.

Traceback Information Gathering Worksheet

This tool can be used by staff in the field to help gather the necessary information to conduct a traceback investigation.

Outbreak Response Protocol

This outbreak response protocol can be used as a template to enable stakeholders to work together effectively during outbreak investigations; define roles and responsibilities; and foster effective communication among investigation team members.

Environmental Health: Employee Screening Forms

These employee screening forms are designed to be used by the person in charge at the restaurant or facility to screen employees at the beginning of each shift during an outbreak investigation in order to exclude ill or recently ill employees.

Environmental Health Employee Interview Forms

These food worker employee interview forms are designed to be used by environmental health staff when investigating outbreak.

Pathogen Specific Environmental Health Checklists

hese environment health checklists are designed to provide guidance for Environmental Health staff when dealing with a number of various outbreak or pathogen specific situations.

Innovations in Routine Investigations and Surveillance (IRIS)

Resources for using online surveys for routine enteric disease case investigations

Rectal Swab Instructions

The Colorado CoE developed patient specimen collection instructions in English and Spanish.

Collect stool (poop) for ova and parasite (O&P) kit

Patient specimen collection instructions. One page visual instructions for public health professionals to give patients providing an O&P Kit specimen during a foodborne outbreak investigation.

How to collect stool (poop) using a bulk container

Public Health professionals can give the one-page visual instructions to patients providing a bulk tool specimen during a foodborne outbreak investigation.

Collect stool (poop) using a swab (Amies)

Public Health professionals can give the one-page visual instructions to patients providing an Amies specimen during a foodborne outbreak investigation.

Media Relations Communication Toolkit

The Media Communication toolkit is a two-page handout that provides public health professionals with tips, tools, and resources for successfully interacting with the media.

Industry Relations Toolkit

This product provides public health professionals with tips, tools, and resources for successfully interacting with a company or business implicated in a foodborne illness outbreak.

Food Source Information Wiki

The Food Source Information Wiki is an interactive working guide to food production methods to provide public health professionals with rapid access to basic information on production practices and food distribution systems.

Foodborne Illness Complaint Form

This tool is a standard form to collect information about foodborne illness complaints.

Conducting an Outbreak Hotwash

This guidance document is a collection of tools and tips for agencies interested in conducting their own hotwash or debrief after an outbreak investigation.

Get the SCOOP! (State-Neutral)

Abbreviated Tennessee Dept. of Health Training on Stool Collection Operation and Optimum Packaging (SCOOP) that is not state-specific.

Background Population Exposure Estimates

This tool provides an estimate of the background exposure rates for particular food items or other exposures using case interview data.

Bleach Guidance Document

The Colorado CoE developed a summary of new bleach recommendations for suspect and confirmed norovirus outbreaks. The summary is available in English and Spanish.