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Current Issue: Volume 16 Number 51 |
Published on: 21 December 2006 |
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FAQs
What is CDR Weekly?
The Communicable Disease Report Weekly (CDR Weekly) is the national public health bulletin for England and Wales. Published every Thursday, it has been an exclusively electronic journal since 2001, and has been published as an open circulation bulletin from 1991 onwards. It is part of the Health Protection Agency’s Information Knowledge Management (IKM) department. Subscription to CDR Weekly is free, and simply requires a simple email request to the editorial team.
The publication is comprised of two main strands: (i) a weekly digest of communicable disease outbreaks and infection related public health news and (ii) infection reports, which includes detailed epidemiological/communicable disease infection reports and short routine data reports.
The CDR Weekly website has it's own exclusive section on the HPA website, and shares the same domain. The publication retains its own brand identity from the main HPA brand, which helps differentiate it as a separate project from the activities on the main HPA site.
Who are our target audience?
As an online journal, and consistently among the top ten viewed sections on the entire HPA website, the reach of CDR Weekly in not restricted to the UK alone. In 2005, the CDR website received an average of 25,000 page views per month, with the CDR homepage accounting for ≈5500 of those views. The journal is primarily aimed at epidemiologists; GPs; hospital medics; consultants in disease control; infection control nurses; healthcare policy makers; health scientists, biomedical scientists, and microbiologists. The readership, however, encompasses an even wider group including academia; journalists; governmental civil servants, military medics; governmental agencies; voluntary health groups, statisticians, and members of the public.
Who provides the content for CDR Weekly?
The primary source for our content is from colleagues at the HPA's Centre for Infections, Colindale, North West London, and this includes contributions from the head of departments, epidemiology scientists, laboratory scientists (eg, microbiology and virology). We also receive some contributions from colleagues from Local and Regional Services (LARS) including, regional epidemiologists and consultants in communicable disease control (CCDCs).
To submit an item to CDR Weekly please email the editorial team: cdr@hpa.org.uk, or by telephone
Telephone +44 (0)20 8200 1295 (ext: 7071 or 7048)
About the Health Protection Agency?
The Health Protection Agency's role is to provide an integrated approach to protecting UK public health through the provision of support and advice to the NHS, local authorities, emergency services, other Arms Length Bodies, the Department of Health and the Devolved Administrations. The Agency was established as a special health authority (SpHA) in 2003. More information about the HPA is available on the main HPA site.
About the HPA's Centre for Infections (CfI)?
The HPA's Centre for Infections, Colindale, North West Lonodn, is the base for communicable disease surveillance and specialist microbiology. The remit of the Centre includes infectious disease surveillance, providing specialist and reference microbiology and microbial epidemiology, co-ordinating the investigation and cause of national and uncommon outbreaks, helping advise government on the risks posed by various infections and responding to international health alerts. Staff at CfI work closely with the CDR Weekly editorial team in the publication of high quality, authoritative, and independent content. Further information on the the Centre for Infections is available on their web page on the main HPA website
Can I receive CDR Weekly by email?
If you wish to receive an email alert or have the PDF file emailed to you each Thursday when the CDR Weekly is published, please send your email address to <cdr@hpa.org.uk>.
How do I reference the electronic CDR Weekly ?
The general style for a reference to CDR Weekly should be as follows (please use the same formatting as shown below) :
Written generically:
HPA.<title>. Commun Dis Rep CDR Wkly [serial online] <year> [cited <date>]; <Volume number(CDR Issue number)>:<CDR website section >. Available at <<hyperlink>>.
Anything enclosed in <> brackets must be defined by the author, but all other text and formatting characters are mandatory.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) are the de facto authors of CDR Weekly, despite occasional joint collaborations and submissions from other health related organisations.
Example:
HPA. Outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 56 in Durham. Commun Dis Rep CDR Wkly [serial online] 2003 [cited 29 January]; 13(27): News. Available at <http://wwww.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2003/cdr2703.pdf>.
When referencing CDR Weekly we strongly advise that you include the PDF hyperlink to the particular issue number, since HTML content pages will always be overwritten or refreshed.
Please also note the following organisational chronology when referencing CDR Weekly:
- Before 1 September 2001; begin reference with 'CDSC.'
- Between 1 September 2001 and 31 March 2003 use 'PHLS.'
- From 1 April 2003 onwards use 'HPA.'
What is the best way to make a link to the CDR?
The CDR Weekly news page is refreshed every week with that week's news content, and the Infection Reports category sections are updated on a rolling monthly basis. If you want to link to a specific article you should ALWAYS link the relevant PDF file of the relevant CDR Issue. For example, if you wanted to create a link to the news item entitled "Levels of acute respiratory virus infections remain low", published in CDR Weekly Vol 12 no 1, 3 January 2002, then the correct link would be:
<http://wwww.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2002/cdr0102.pdf>
The same approach applies when linking to content in Infection by category section. If you wish to create a link to a specific report, eg, "Rotavirus in England and Wales: 1992 to 2003", published in the Enteric Infection category in CDR Weekly, Volume 14 Number 20, 20 February 2004, then use the relevant PDF CDR Issue link:
<http://wwww.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2004/cdr2004.pdf>
How do I print a specific issue of CDR Weekly?
A PDF file of each CDR Weekly issue is produced to enable readers to print relevant articles. Most articles have a navigation bar above the article, clicking on the PDF link will open the entire PDF file for that issue. Alternatively clicking on the icon at the top of any page or the CDR home link at the bottom of a page will take you back to the index page where there is a PDF link for the current issue. The whole issue or just relevant pages can be printed from the PDF file, by selecting all or specific pages in the print options.
