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Childcare exclusion counselling — communication OSCE
OSCE on gastroenteritis return-to-care counselling, exclusion principles and avoidance of inappropriate clearance.
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Target exams
MRCPCH ClinicalRACP DCE
Prompt
Parent of a 2-year-old with resolving gastroenteritis demands immediate return-to-care clearance for work tomorrow; centre has an AGE cluster notice.
Objectives
- Assess severity and participation before any certificate discussion. [11]
- Apply local gastroenteritis exclusion principles without inventing days. [11] [12]
- Explain outbreak hygiene and household secondary-case risk. [9] [10]
- Refuse inappropriate antibiotic or false “non-infectious” clearance while remaining collaborative. [4]
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- [3]Black RE Handwashing to prevent diarrhea in day-care centers. American journal of epidemiology, 1981.PMID 7211827
- [4]Roberts L Effect of infection control measures on the frequency of diarrheal episodes in child care: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics, 2000.PMID 10742314
- [9]Mattison CP Childcare and School Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreaks: 2009-2020. Pediatrics, 2022.PMID 36278284
- [10]Schulz C Outbreak investigation of norovirus gastroenteritis in a childcare facility in Central Queensland, Australia: a household level case series analysis. Communicable diseases intelligence (2018), 2024.PMID 39165020
- [11]Richardson M Evidence base of incubation periods, periods of infectiousness and exclusion policies for the control of communicable diseases in schools and preschools. The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2001.PMID 11332662
- [12]Czumbel I Management and control of communicable diseases in schools and other child care settings: systematic review on the incubation period and period of infectiousness. BMC infectious diseases, 2018.PMID 29716545