1. Session 15: Activity 1: Outbreak Report
Facilitator notes:
Legionnaires’ disease: Risk assessment, outbreak investigation and control
Session 15: Activity 1: Outbreak Report
ECDC, 2012

2. An outbreak report should be a factual account of the incident, investigations, actions and outcome; It should also provide a learning opportunity through the lessons learned if a well conducted review is undertaken

3. Structure Summary of key points of note
Background - which should include a description of any relevant background or context to the incident
Factual account of the incident including
A time line
A description of the
epidemiological investigation findings
microbiological findings
environmental investigation findings

4. Structure (continued)
Description of any actions or control measures that were taken
Conclusions
Recommendations
Lessons learned

5. Facilitator notes:
Acknowledgements The creation of this training material was commissioned in 2010 by ECDC to Health Protection Agency (UK) and the University of Chester (UK) with the direct involvement of Louise Brown, Janice Gidman, Emma Gilgunn-Jones, Ian Hall (on behalf of the ECDC Legionnaires Disease Outbreak Toolbox Development Group), Tim Harrison, Rob Johnston, Carol Joseph, Sandra Lai, John Lee, Falguni Naik, Nick Phin, Michelle Rivett, and Susanne Surman-Lee. The revision and update of this training material was commissioned in 2017 by ECDC to Transmissible (NL) with the direct involvement of Arnold Bosman and Kassiani Mellou.