Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Information for Health Care Providers

Guidelines and Recommendations

• • Poster: Guidelines for Clinicians in Absence of any SARS Worldwide
• • Poster: Guidelines for Clinicians in Presence of any SARS Worldwide
• • Discharge Instructions for SARS Patients
  [Chinese | Korean | Vietnamese | Spanish | French | Russian]
• • Discharge Instructions for Household Contacts of SARS Patients
  [Chinese | Korean | Vietnamese | Spanish | French | Russian]
• • Poster: Patient Triage
  [Chinese | Korean | Spanish | Vietnamese | French | Russian]
• • Guidelines for Reporting and Arranging Laboratory Testing for Potential Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) During Time Periods When There is NO Confirmed SARS Activity Anywhere in the World
• • Guidelines for Reporting and Arranging Laboratory Testing for Potential Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) After the Re-Emergence of SARS Activity Has Been Confirmed Anywhere in the World
• • CDC Case Definition
• • CDC: Legal Authorities for Isolation/Quarantine
• • CDC: Clinical Guidance on the Identification and Evaluation of Possible SARS-CoV Disease among Persons Presenting with Community-Acquired Illness
• • CDC: In the Absence of SARS-CoV Transmission Worldwide: Guidance for Surveillance, Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation, and Reporting

Physician's Alerts

• • 2004 SARS Health Alerts
• • 2003 SARS Health Alerts

City Health Information

• • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (December, 2003)

Infection Control Protocol

• • CDC

CDC Advisories

• • CDC Health Advisory: Update on Influenza A (H5N1) and SARS: Interim Recommendations for Enhanced U.S. Surveillance, Testing, and Infection Control (February 3, 2004)

Other Resources

• • CDC
• • WHO