Sample Results Letter - Younger than 18 Years of Age

Attachment 6A

Template

(ATSDR Letterhead)

Flesch-Kincaid Reading level 11.5

Sample Results Letter to the Parent of a Participant

Younger than 18 years of age

DATE ________________

Name XXXXX

Address XXXX

Dear ____________

Thank you for allowing your child, _______________, to take part in the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) Exposure Investigation (EI) in the city of Iola, Kansas. The goal of the EI is to determine whether people living in Iola, are being exposed to lead.

ATSDR collected a blood sample from your child on [Month Day, Year]. This letter contains the results of your child’s blood lead test.

Your child's test result is shown below.

Blood Lead Test Results for First name Last name
Test	Test Result	Investigation Exposure Level
Blood Lead	XXX µg/dL	5 µg/dL1
1 The investigation exposure level for blood lead is 5 µg/dL. This value is the upper reference interval value of the 97.5th percentile of the distribution of the combined 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 cycles of the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (CDC 2013- http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm).

Reporting child blood lead level:

Insert A. Blood Lead Level below Investigation Exposure Level (IEL)

Insert B. Blood Lead Level equal to or above Investigation Exposure Level (IEL)

ATSDR’s recommendations for reducing exposure to lead are in the enclosed factsheet.

[For winter only]ATSDR will be testing in Iola during the summer of 2017 when children are playing outdoors and may be contacting soil. We recommend that your child to get tested again during the summer.

If you have questions concerning this Exposure Investigation or your child’s test results, please contact me at (770) 488-0744, toll-free at (888) 892-1320 or by email at: [email protected]

Sincerely,

Luly Rosales-Guevara, MD

Principal Investigator – Iola, Kansas Exposure Investigation

ATSDR Division of Community Health Investigations, Exposure Investigation Team

Enclosure {Factsheet A}