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Healthcare Outbreak Response Training

Introduces public health professionals to key concepts needed to investigate a healthcare outbreak

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Principles & Practices Chapters

Comprehensive reference with information on HAI/AR outbreak response topics

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Automated Rapid Outbreak Detection (CLUSTER Trial)

Learn how the CLUSTER Trial used lab data to detect hospital outbreaks in real time.

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Meet CORHA

The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) and Antimicrobial-Resistant (AR) pathogens, CORHA is a multidisciplinary collaboration of national associations and federal agencies working together since  2015 to improve methods to detect, investigate, control and prevent HAI/AR outbreaks.

Council member representatives bring expertise in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention, environmental health, public health laboratory activities and HAI/AR reporting and regulation at the local, state, and federal levels.

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Access CORHA Principles & Practices for Healthcare Outbreak Responses

Our comprehensive reference equips public health, healthcare, and other stakeholders with information to guide the response to any type of healthcare outbreak. Topics include:

Chapter 1: Planning and Preparation

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More Resources to Manage Outbreaks

CORHA & other leading epidemiology organizations offer a variety of complimentary investigation resources to support your institution, including:

Principles and Practices for Healthcare Outbreak Response Chapters

Corha Prepared

The CORHA Principles and Practices for Healthcare Outbreak Response is a comprehensive reference developed with the aim of equipping public health, healthcare, and other stakeholders with information on a series of HAI/AR outbreak response topics.

Notification Framework One-Pager

Corha Prepared

Guidance for notification in the context of a suspected HAI outbreak.

A Trial of Automated Outbreak Detection to Reduce Hospital Pathogen Spread

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A cluster-randomized trial was conducted in 82 community hospitals within a larger healthcare system to assess whether automated statistical surveillance and standardized response protocols could facilitate earlier containment efforts that would reduce the size of outbreaks.