The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines "individual-based decision-making" for vaccination as vaccination based on shared clinical decision-making between patients or caregivers and health care providers, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
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Definition of an approach to vaccination decision-making used in immunization guidelines.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service is a program within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that conducts frontline public health field investigations and responses and is often referred to as the 'disease detectives'.
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Describes the role and common characterization of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is a training program that trains 'disease detectives' to track outbreaks around the world.
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EIS is a long-standing CDC training program for field epidemiology and outbreak investigation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operates the Laboratory Leadership Service (LLS), a training program that is a sister program to the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).
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LLS provides leadership and management training for public health laboratory professionals and is associated with CDC's workforce development.