Report
Report on suspected patient
- report on the suspected infection case
Step 1. Epidemiological Investigation Form
- Fill-out of the Form at a public health center which recognizes the case for the first time
- Classification of suspected patients by municipal epidemiological investigators
Step 2. Measures for Suspected Patient
○ Patient care
- (Designated clinics): Collecting clinical specimen, and requesting and transferring to available hospital
- (Municipal epidemiological investigators): Determining how to manage patient
: self-quarantine, isolation at negative-pressure room or public hospital, etc.
- (First-recognizing public health center): Informing patient of transfer method before test results are found out
: by personal vehicle/walking/ambulance (public health center, 119)
- (First-recognizing public health center): Disinfecting transporting vehicle
- (First-recognizing public health center): Notifying Isolation/Hospital admission (by phone)
- (Patient’s local public health center): Issuing the Notice of Isolation/Hospital admission
Step 3. Test of Suspected Patient
- Type of Specimen: 2 (upper respiratory tract, lower respiratory tract)
- Testing Organization: medical institutions or entrusted testing agency
Step 4. Measures for Confirmed Patient
1) Confirmed patient management
- (Medical institutions): Continuous treatments and management under quarantine
- (Municipalities): Checking clinical course and sharing the status of the emergency rooms
2) Epidemiological Investigations and Management
- (Municipalities): Additional investigation on those in contact with the infected and
follow-up on latest updates
- (Patient’s local public health center): Directing those in contact with the patient to
self-quarantine and conducting daily monitoring
