Public Health Unit Checklist
Contact the patient and their doctor
to:
- Obtain
patient’s travel history
- Obtain
patient’s risk exposure history
- Obtain
patient’s previous hepatitis A vaccination history
- Identify
likely source of infection
- Confirm onset
of symptoms (if any)
- Confirm
results of relevant pathology tests
- Ensure that
the patient is aware of diagnosis
- Ensure that
contact tracing has commenced
- Refer contacts
that have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus in the preceding 14 days for
post-exposure prophylaxis
Contact the laboratory to:
- Obtain any
outstanding results
- Ensure the
sample is referred to the reference
laboratory for PCR and genotyping
Confirm case:
- Assess
information against case definition
Other issues:
