Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

January 13, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. RR–1
Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011
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Field triage is a process used by emergency medical services providers to make decisions about the most appropriate destination hospital for injured patients. In 2011, CDC convened an expert panel to review the existing guidelines, which had last been modified in 2006. This report explains the revisions and modifications that were made to the 2006 guidelines and provides the rationale for these changes. This report is intended to help prehospital-care providers in their daily duties recognize individual injured patients who are most likely to benefit from specialized trauma center resources and is not intended as a mass casualty triage tool.

January 20, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. SS–1
Surveillance of Demographic Characteristics and Health Behaviors Among Adult Cancer Survivors — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2009

Approximately 12 million people are living with cancer in the United States. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, this report presents the first population-based survey with state-level assessment of health behaviors and demographic characteristics among cancer survivors aged ≥18 years. Health-care providers and patients should be aware of the importance of preventive care, smoking cessation, regular physical activity, and maintaining a healthy weight for cancer survivors.

May 13, 2011 / Vol. 58 / No. 53
Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2009

The Health-care providers in the United States are required to report certain infectious diseases to a specified state or local authority. A disease is designated as notifiable if timely information about individual cases is considered necessary for prevention and control of the disease. Each year, CDC publishes a summary of the cases of notifiable disease reported for the most recent year for which data is available. This report presents a summary of notifiable diseases for 2009. The Summary is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_nd/index.html. This site also includes publications from previous years.

January 6, 2012 / Vol. 61 / Supplement
Guidelines for Safe Work Practices in Human and Animal Medical Diagnostic Laboratories: Recommendations of a CDC-convened, Biosafety Blue Ribbon Panel

Prevention of injuries and occupational-related infections in U.S. laboratories is a major concern. A previous publication presented biosafety guidelines for laboratories; however, it did not address safety in diagnostic labs in human and animal medicine. In 2008, CDC convened a Blue Ribbon Panel to review safety issues in diagnostic labs. This supplement presents the guidelines developed by this group of experts.