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Position Statements

A position statement is a major documentation and analysis of a broad • 19-ID-08: Revision to the Case Definition for National Pertussis
policy or surveillance issue. Position statements are an integral part of Surveillance
CSTE’s work as a member-driven organization, providing programmatic • 19-MCH-01: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Standardized Case
guidance and influencing public health on national, state, and local Definition
levels. Position statement authors must be active CSTE members.
CSTE approved two interim position statements during the COVID-19
Each spring, position statements are submitted to be discussed and pandemic to create and update the standardized surveillance case
voted on by the membership at the Annual Conference in June. definition for COVID-19. Due to the cancellation of the 2020 CSTE
Below is the list of approved 2019 position statements vetted by CSTE Annual Conference, critical, time-sensitive position statements were
membership: submitted and approved as interim position statements. All interim
position statements must be ratified at the next CSTE Annual Conference
2019 Position Statements or they will become null. Below is the list of interim 2020 position
statements:
• 19-CC-01: Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Standardized Surveillance
Case Definition
• 19-ID-01: Public Health Reporting and National Notification of 2020 Interim Position Statements
Plague • 20-ID-01: Standardized Surveillance Case Definition and National
• 19-ID-02: Standardized Surveillance Case Definition for Notification for 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)*
Blastomycosis • 20-ID-02: Update to the Standardized Surveillance Case Definition
• 19-ID-03: Case Definition for Non-pestis Yersiniosis and National Notification for 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease
• 19-ID-04: Revision to the Case Definition for National (COVID-19)
Legionellosis Surveillance • 20-ID-04: Revision to the Standardized Case Definition, Case
• 19-ID-05: Revision to the Standardized Case Definition, Case Classification, and Public Health Reporting for Acute Flaccid
Classification, and Public Health Reporting for Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Myelitis • 20-ID-05: CSTE Recommendations for Modernization of Laws to
• 19-ID-06: Revision of the Case Definition for Hepatitis C Prevent HIV Criminalization
• 19-ID-07: Changes to Public Health Reporting and National
Notification for Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis (including Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever)
*superseded by Interim 20-ID-02

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