Session: SARS: Lessons Learned from Outbreak Investigations and Surveillance

4035.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral

SARS: Lessons Learned from Outbreak Investigations and Surveillance

This session includes discussions of innovative management techniques for monitoring SARS patients and contacts under non-hospital voluntary quarantine, psycho-behavioral surveillance and the related impact on outbreak control, the physical and psychological health status of nurses serving SARS patients, and the transmissibility of SARS, based on seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV, in the community setting.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Develop and implement an effective and efficient program with limited personnel resources to monitor SARS patients and their contacts who are in voluntary home isolation and quarantine. 2. Understand how population psycho-behavioral factors are potentially an important factor in the transmission of an infectious agent. 3. Recognize the critical role of serosurveys in ascertaining natural reservoirs of SARS coronovirus. 4. Discuss hospital support systems and occupational health policy to promote the psychological well being of nurses and other health care workers during future similar outbreaks.

Moderator(s):

Susan M Farner, PhD

8:30 AM

Videophone Monitoring of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) Patients and Contacts under Non-hospital Voluntary Quarantine and Isolation: A Novel Management Approach

Abby J. Greenberg, MD, Margaret M. Sherman, RN, BSN, CIC, Joanne A. Maniscalco, RN, BSN, Charles DiMaggio, RPA, PhD, Daniel Kuhles, MD, MPH

8:50 AM

A tale of two cities: Community psycho-behavioral surveillance and related impact on outbreak control in Hong Kong and Singapore during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic

Gabriel M Leung, MD, MPH, Stella Quah, PhD, Lai-Ming Ho, PhD, Sai-Yin Ho, PhD, Anthony J Hedley, MD, FFPH, Hin-Peng Lee, MD, FFPH, Tai-Hing Lam, MD, MSc

9:10 AM

Seroprevalence of IgG antibody to SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in a population-based sample of close contacts of all 1,755 cases in Hong Kong

Gabriel M Leung, MD, MPH, Pui-Hong Chung, MBBS, MRCP, Thomas Tsang, MBBS, FHKAM, Wilina Lim, MBBS, FRCPath, Steve KK Chan, BSc, Patsy Chau, MStat, Christl A Donnelly, DSc, Azra G Ghani, DPhil, Christophe Fraser, DPhil, Steven Riley, DPhil, Neil Ferguson, PhD, Roy M Anderson, PhD, Yuk-lung Law, MBBS, Tina Mok, MBBS, Tonny Ng, MBBS, Alex Fu, MBBS, Pak-Yin Leung, MBBS, JS Malik Peiris, MBBS, DPhil, Tai-Hing Lam, MD, MSc, Anthony J Hedley, MD, FFPH

9:30 AM

A survey of the nursesˇ physical and psychological health status in relation to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong

Sophia Chan, RN, PhD, Gabriel M Leung, MD, MPH, Agnes Tiwari, RN, PhD, Farideh Salili, SRN, PhD, Sharron Leung, RN, PhD, Alan Wong, SRN, Adela Lai, RN, MHA, Tai-Hing Lam, MD, MSc

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Epidemiology

Endorsed by:

Occupational Health and Safety; Statistics

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA