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Provides all the information required to investigate rabies cases including a summary of the disease, agent details, mode of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, diagnosis, prophylaxis, surveillance, control measures, and more.

This helpful document provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV/AIDS case reporting.

Health care providers are the eyes and ears of public health. Reporting makes it possible to detect failures of work place health and safety protection and prevent further illness and injury due to work. This document explains the most frequently asked questions we receive regarding occupational notifiable conditions reporting.

Before placing vaccines in a new refrigerator unit, follow these simple steps to ensure success.

This fact sheet explains what the plague is, how people get it, common forms of plague, how to protect yourself, and more.

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Audiologist section of the newborn hearing screening program manual.

This flowchart explains the Auditory Brainstem Response hospital screening protocol in detail for use by healthcare providers.

This glossary of terms makes understanding the terminology used when talking about newborn hearing screening much easier. It explains such terms as auditory brainstem response, audiogram, audiologist, early intervention, and dozens more.

This form makes it easy for physician’s to track a baby’s hearing screening follow-up tasks from birth to 6 months old.

Explains the many reasons why you should continue with follow-up visits if your baby does not pass newborn hearing screening.

Newborn Screening Audiencia Razones de Seguimiento

Explains requirements for initial hearing screening, rescreening of infants who refer, infants not screened prior to discharge, infants who pass screen but have an identified risk factor, hospital documentation and communication of screening results, hospital screening requirements, and more.

Since 1999, the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing has advocated for appropriate and necessary care for the infant with hearing loss to be directed and coordinated by the child’s physician within the medical home with support from appropriate ancillary services.

Since the first universal newborn hearing screening programs were established in the early 1990s, there has been significant progress. Progress is evident in the development and implementation of protocols for newborn hearing screening, pediatric audiologic evaluation of newborns, fitting of amplification, and medical management of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

When a hearing loss is first diagnosed, the test results may seem confusing. Although hearing loss is often described as a percentage, it is too complex to describe with one number. Remember, also, that determining how your child uses, or will use, his or her residual hearing is a process.

Entender Newborn Screening Diagnóstico Audiencia

This document explains why physicians check newborn hearing screen status and provide needed follow-up.

Explains a series of eight quick tips to help ensure a baby’s hearing is properly screened.

Surveillance by the New Mexico Department of Health, physicians, veterinarians and local mosquito control agencies continues to demonstrate yearly West Nile virus activity in many New Mexico counties. Female mosquitoes can over-winter and remain infected with the virus so it is expected that WNV will perpetuate but at varying levels each year depending on environmental conditions.

This script helps healthcare providers to talk to parents in English and Spanish about a variety of situations including informing parents of the screen, explaining passing and not passing, inconclusive results or could not screen, passing and not passing with risk factors for hearing loss, and does not pass.

This document the Expedited Partner Treatment mechanism for providers to treat patients with whom they have not established a therapeutic relationship, in order to prevent re-infection of an index patient.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a communicable respiratory disease which can cause severe illness, complications and even death, particularly in infants. Neither infection nor vaccination confer lifelong immunity. Adolescents and adults with mild or atypical disease can transmit pertussis to infants, young children, and other susceptible persons.