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Guidance
Acute respiratory disease: managing outbreaks in care homes
- From:
- Public Health England
- Part of:
- Pandemic flu: public health response and Seasonal influenza: guidance, data and analysis
- Published:
- 26 October 2012
- Last updated:
- 29 November 2016, see all updates
Managing seasonal influenza, identifying pathogens and transmission routes for acute respiratory disease in care homes.
Documents
PHE guidelines on the management of outbreaks of influenza-like illness (ILI) in care homes
Ref: PHE publications gateway number: 2016471 PDF, 428KB, 26 pages
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Details
This guidance covers the following topics:
- case definitions
- managing cases
- infection control
- recording and reporting
It includes a leaflet for care homes.
Document information
Published: 26 October 2012
Updated: 29 November 2016
- New care home document uploaded.
- Added supplementary guidance for health protection teams involved in prevention and control of influenza and other respiratory viral infections among care home residents.
- First published.