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Developing clinical guidelines in real-time: The fungal meningitis outbreak experience
Developing clinical guidelines in real-time: The fungal meningitis outbreak experience
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
: 12:50 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
The outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections associated with contaminated methylprednisolone acetate from the New England Compounding Pharmacy was unprecedented in scope. This presentation will describe the real-time development of clinical guidelines for the fungal infections and will go over clinical aspects of the case-patients.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsEpidemiology
Other professions or practice related to public health
Protection of the public in relation to communicable diseases including prevention or control
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate an understanding of the development of clinical guidance in real time for this outbreak.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I was helping to lead this portion of the investigation
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.