Appendix 4 - PHU dengue case checklist

Contact the patient’s doctor to:

• Obtain patient’s history
• Confirm results of relevant pathology tests or recommend that the tests be done
• Inform the doctor you will have to contact patient or care giver

Contact the patient (or care giver) to:

• Confirm onset date and symptoms of the illness
• Confirm travel history
• If no overseas travel, identify location/s of patient during exposure period (3-14 days prior to onset of symptoms)
• Complete Dengue Investigation Form
• Provide with Dengue Factsheet

If patient is in receptive area:

• Recommend the patient (and their household contacts) avoid being bitten by mosquitoes while febrile (first 5 days of symptoms)
• Identify known contacts and obtain contact details
• Contact patients contacts to determine current symptoms and recommend testing if necessary
• Provide contacts with Dengue Factsheet

Contact laboratory to:

• Obtain any outstanding results

Where local transmission is suspected

Public Health Units should notify CD Oncall within 48 hours of the notification:

• Inform them of case details and exposure information

Other issues

• Assess information against case definition to confirm case
• Enter case data onto notifiable diseases database
• Report details of case and action plan to state/territory CDB
• Initiate active case finding
• Consider alerting local doctors, EDs, laboratories
• Consider local media release