Cold Syndrome Guidance Doc Call – August 2, 2018
The CSTE Cold-Related Illness Syndrome Guidance Document live link can be viewed here (call notes also located there).
Cold Syndrome Guidance Doc Call – August 2, 2018
- Background section: complete
- Methods section: complete
- Regional variations/terms section
- Still need states to add to this
- Fatema (MI) could maybe help with this (exclude frozen because of "frozen shoulder")
- Novel query section
- Question: is the document on Basecamp the current
- Katie to double-check to see if updated version there and if not will post
- Nelson (if can and willing) to run again with the few additional inclusions/exclusions
- Question: is the document on Basecamp the current
- Steps for implementing section
- Matt developed (see last month’s notes in Google doc for details)
- Syndrome validation section
- Query very specific, need to be aware of what is missing but a good indicator of trends overall
- Consistent with an analysis that NJ did for heat (very specific but not super sensitive) cases
- Cases picked up tend to be correct but still miss fair amount of cases in general
- If aware of that can treat as indicator
- Katie to add language to this section
- Query very specific, need to be aware of what is missing but a good indicator of trends overall
- Potential uses for data section
- Fatema wrote up (in Basecamp)
- Discusses how MI uses data to create a weekly report
- Report no longer listed online but looking into, but MI approved report to be added as an appendix
- Fatema to look into finding a good report to add as an appendix (routine or unique)
- Discusses how MI uses data to create a weekly report
- Fatema wrote up (in Basecamp)
- Limitations section
- Katie wrote up (in Basecamp)
- Conclusions/recommendations section
- Still need this section
- Other comments
- Look at getting document farther along before Nelson puts through some sort of clearance
- Potential external reviewers
- Laurel Harduar Morano (helped with SyS Climate Guidance Doc), Katie Conlon (CDC SME), Meredith Jagger (CSTE member/SyS SME), Rasneet Kumar (ISDS SyS co-lead – on maternity leave but supervisor Jessica White may be able to review), Zach Stein (ISDS SyS co-lead), Amy (works with ISDS – reviewed heat document, recently posted about winter weather injuries, could maybe provide info on regional variations/terms), Emilie Lamb (ISDS – helping with other SyS CSTE docs)
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Plan to email them now to get document on their radar for when done
- Henri to give Zach heads up and send Hayleigh contact info co-lead
- Matt to contact Laurel, Amy, and Katie
- Hayleigh to email Emilie and Meredith
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Goal: finish draft of whole document in next month
- Will plan to circulate more complete document approx.. 1 week before next call (in a month)
- Things to think about
- May need to put through own jurisdiction clearance
- Think if any piece you've contributed would need to be reviewed by your jurisdiction
- Next call meant for finalizing
- FYI - Matt might be MIA in Sept with wife pregnant, but will be around in Oct