Influenza outbreak management tabletop exercise for congregate living settings

Christina K Chan; Jerome A Leis; Heather Candon; Neethu R Thomas; Jaclyn O'Brien; James Callahan; Brigitte Pascual; Marianna Ofner; Fatima Fazalullasha; Adrienne K Chan; Jeff E Powis; Charlie Tan

doi:10.1017/ash.2023.528

Influenza outbreak management tabletop exercise for congregate living settings

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Jan 11;4(1):e4. doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.528. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Christina K Chan¹, Jerome A Leis^{1

2}, Heather Candon¹, Neethu R Thomas¹, Jaclyn O'Brien¹, James Callahan³, Brigitte Pascual³, Marianna Ofner¹, Fatima Fazalullasha⁴, Adrienne K Chan^{1

2}, Jeff E Powis^{2

3}, Charlie Tan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Infection Prevention and Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Infection Prevention and Control, Toronto East Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Toronto Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

We conducted a tabletop exercise on influenza outbreak preparedness that engaged a large group of congregate living settings (CLS), with improvements in self-reported knowledge and readiness. This proactive approach to responding to communicable disease threats has potential to build infection prevention and control capacity beyond COVID-19 in the CLS sector.