Influenza tracking

Projects
Active?:	active
Program:	CC
Requestor:	Critical Care QI Team
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Confirmed influenza cases is a patient who has a positive influenza result from Cadham. Hemophilus influenzae[1] or Parainfluenza virus is not considered as Influenza. ** so what is considered positive ? H1N1 swine flu// H3N2// Influenza B//H5N1 avian influenza // H7N9 avian influenza

Data Collection Instructions

For any critical care or medicine patient who has Tracheobronchitis or any infection with Influenza virus:

Template:Discussion To clarify 'medicine patient' in the above statement is influenza tracking specific to the Critical Care Program only or is the Medicine Program to be included as well?

• Enter the following in tmp:
  • Project: Influenza
  • Item:
    • if confirmed, enter: positive culture
      • Date: date of first positive culture taken
      • Time: time of first positive culture taken
    • if suspected (eg. getting tamiflu/oseltamiv), enter: suspected
      • Template:Discussion anything for date, time, notes or other? Ttenbergen 20:27, 2017 October 23 (CDT)
• email Myrna Dyck, Epidemiologist, Infection Prevention & Control
  • Template:Discussion email her for both suspected and confirmed or only confirmed? Ttenbergen 20:27, 2017 October 23 (CDT)

Don't use TMP as notes

Please do not enter this TMP until you have actually confirmed positive influenza culture. Use the Notes field on you laptop as a reminder if needed.

Purpose and reporting

The Infection Prevention & Control releases summary report of influenza statistics every Influenza season and the Critical Care Directors would like to make sure that the reported statistics at ICU are consistent with the Critical Care & Medicine Database. The two programs agreed to collaborate by communicating the incidence of influenza as it occurs.

Dates

• Start Date: October 2017
• End Date: indefinite

Template:CCMDB Data Integrity Checks

None yet. Do we need any? Possibly with

• Influenza virus
• Tracheobronchitis
• Pharm influenza drugs

Best to wait until we have some data to do this. Tina has scheduled review with Julie for 3rd week of November.

checklist / to do

• confirm documentation details above
• add to s_tmp
• inter-link with relevant articles

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