Feasibility Assessment of a School Nurse-Led Approach Using Chronic Absenteeism to Establish the School-Based Active Surveillance Process.

Erin D Maughan¹, Mary E Thompson², Carol A Walsh¹, Anindita Issa³, Jin-Mann S Lin³

¹233071National Association of School Nurses, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

²Change Healthcare, Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA.

³1242National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Abstract

This article shares what was learned from the feasibility assessment of a nurse-led school-based active surveillance (SBAS) pilot to track chronic absenteeism using myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as an exemplar. This pilot encompassed a 3-year period with training and feedback from school nurses (SNs) on data collection and ME/CFS. SNs found that the SBAS process helpe…

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