Essential Public Health Reporting Guidelines and Forms

Disease Prevention and Control Guidelines

Abuse Reporting Guidelines

Important Phone Numbers - Medical Provider Links - Communicable Disease Links
Health Statistic Web Links - Bioterrorism Information

Essential Public Health Reporting Guidelines and Forms
This section contains each of the documents from the the complete "Essential Public Health Reporting Guidelines" manual which medical providers within Santa Cruz County have received. Click here to view the entire manual in one continuous PDF document. If you are a medical provider and want to receive the printed version of this manual, please call 454-4275.

Welcome to the Reporting Guide - What's new in public health disease reporting.

• Disease Reporting Form

  • Report these diseases - Diseases and conditions that physicians should report to HSA

    • Title 17 List of Reportable Conditions with CDC web links

  • Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) Form Instruction and CMR Form
    
    

• Lab Reporting

  • Report these lab results - types of lab results that should be reported to HSA

  • Report Tuberculosis lab results - labs that isolate Mycobacterium tuberculosis must submit a culture to the county public health lab.

  • Testing animals for rabies - Any dog or cat that dies or is euthanized within 10 days of biting a person must be tested for rabies.

• Disease Information

  • Tuberculosis (TB)

    • TB Screening and Referral

    • Treatment of Latent TB Referral Form

    • Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Risk Assessment Scale

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS

  • HIV/AIDS

    • California's Non-Name Based HIV Reporting Process

  • Animal Bites and Rabies

    • Medical Report of Animal Bite Form

  • Pesticide Illness and Injury

    • Pesticide Illness Report Form

  • Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

    • Ehrlichiosis
      
      

• Bioterrorism (BT) Information

  • Bioterrorism

  • Bioterrorism Categories and Resources

    • Anthrax

    • Botulism

    • Plague

    • Smallpox

      • Evaluating Patients for Smallpox

    • Tularemia

    • Viral Hemmorhagic Fevers
      
      

• Vaccine Information

  • Vaccine Reactions

  • Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Form with Mailer and Instructions

  • Smallpox Fact Sheet - Adverse reactions following Smallpox vaccination.
    
    

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)

  • Public Health Reporting and Privacy

Important Phone Numbers

Disease Prevention and Control Guidelines

• Management Guidelines for Selected Communicable Diseases

• Immunizations

• Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Health Care Workers Exposed to:

  • HIV

  • Hepatitis B (HBV)

  • Hepatitis C (HCV)

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  • CDC 2002 STD Treatment Guidelines

  • STD Web Resources

• Tuberculosis

  • Treatment Recommendations for Active TB and Latent TB Infection

  • The TB Warm Line

  • TB Surveillance Reports

  • TB Web Resources

• Hepatitis

  • Prevention of Hepatitis A Through Active or Passive Immunization

  • Guidelines for Control of Hepatitis B

  • Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease

• HIV/AIDS

  • HIV Surveillance Reports

• Other Illnesses

  • Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illnesses

  • Prevention and Control of Influenza

  • Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease

  • Guidelines for Control of Measles

  • Guidelines for Control of Pertussis

  • Preventing Pneumococcal Disease Among Infants and Young Children

  • Poliomyelitis Prevention in the United States

Abuse Reporting Guidelines

• Domestic Violence Guidelines

• Child Abuse Reporting Guide

• Suspected Child Abuse Reporting Form

• Emergency and Police Departments Phone Numbers

• Elder Abuse Reporting Form

Provider Web Links - CD Web Links - Health Statistic Web Links

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