FoodNet Coordinators Call

Thursday, January 27 2005

Attendees: Sam Shin (CA), Alicia Cronquist (CO), Ruthanne Marcus, Sharon Hurd (CT), Melissa Tobin-D’Angelo, Stepy Thomas, Suzanne Segler (GA), Pat Ryan (MD), Ellen Swanson (MN), Shelley Zansky, Bridget Anderson (NY), Beletshachew Shiferaw, Julie Hatch, Melissa Plantenga (OR), Tim Jones (TN), Linda Gaul (TX), Elizabeth Ailes, Jennifer Nelson (CDC)

Agenda Items:

1.  Vision Meeting

  1. FoodNet Coordinators Meeting
  2. Additional agenda items?

1.  Need more time devoted to NEDSS update

2.  EIP lab surveys should be added to Vision Meeting agenda

3.  Need to discuss STEC classification. Possibly have E. coli laboratory contact at meeting to discuss.

  1. Coordinators Survey

1.  Due Feb. 11th

2.  Follow ABCs format (i.e., survey every year)

3.  Purpose:

  1. Help document/track changes in surveillance (e.g., use number of hospitalize in Annual Report);
  2. Help establish goals for upcoming year;
  3. Facilitate surveillance discussion at Coordinators Meeting;

4.  Results will be presented in aggregate.

2.  Performance Standards Revision

  1. Summary of changes (additions, deletions, modifications) provided at Coordinators Meeting.
  2. Outbreak Performance Standard
  3. Discussed/accepted by OB Working Group
  4. Need to submit to Steering Committee for approval
  5. Vibrio and S. Typhi Case Report Forms
  6. Two CRFs that are completed by state epis. Should be sent to CDC for every case of Vibrio, S. Typhi case;
  7. Information from these forms will be integrated with information from active surveillance;
  8. This are previously approved standards but a timeline has never been established; need to determine “a timely fashion;”
  9. Similar to NARMS, there should be a lag time. Discussions here, allow a “4 wk” lag from when the case was reported to when the form was received at CDC. Two months may be a more reasonable lag time;
  10. Needs further discussion at the Coordinators Meeting as to look at what is the current lag time;
  11. Need to change forms to add place for “State Lab ID;”
  12. “Target of ____% of Vibrio isolates received at state lab will be sent to CDC.”
  13. Change this standard to non-cholera Vibrio and fold into NARMS standard (#8)
  14. Deletions:
  15. It is OK to delete obsolete standards without going to Steering Committee. For example, standard for “data sharing” calls can be deleted.

3.  Surveillance Questions

  1. Add “chronic diarrhea” variable (Suzanne Segler)
  2. Need to ask parasitic branch how onset date under PHLIS Cryptosporidium module is used.

4.  Conference calls

  1. “My Meetings” options
  2. Test on whether certain “My Meeting” options worked (e.g., *6 to mute yourself during conference calls);
  3. Test worked great. Further instructions will be distributed during the Feb. Steering Committee call.