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. 2024 Jan 11;4(1):e4.
doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.528. eCollection 2024.

Influenza outbreak management tabletop exercise for congregate living settings

Christina K Chan  1 , Jerome A Leis  1   2 , Heather Candon  1 , Neethu R Thomas  1 , Jaclyn O'Brien  1 , James Callahan  3 , Brigitte Pascual  3 , Marianna Ofner  1 , Fatima Fazalullasha  4 , Adrienne K Chan  1   2 , Jeff E Powis  2   3 , Charlie Tan  1   2
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Influenza outbreak management tabletop exercise for congregate living settings

Christina K Chan et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. .

Abstract

We conducted a tabletop exercise on influenza outbreak preparedness that engaged a large group of congregate living settings (CLS), with improvements in self-reported knowledge and readiness. This proactive approach to responding to communicable disease threats has potential to build infection prevention and control capacity beyond COVID-19 in the CLS sector.

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All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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