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The impact of prior information on estimates of disease transmissibility using Bayesian tools [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The basic reproductive number (R₀) and the distribution of the serial interval (SI) are often used to quantify transmission during an infectious disease outbreak.
Archer, Brett N., Gupta, Mayetri, Moser, Carlee B., White, Laura F.   +3 more
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Proactive Contact Tracing.

PLOS Digital Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an unprecedented demand for interventions that can reduce disease spread without excessively restricting daily activity, given negative impacts on mental health and economic outcomes.
Prateek Gupta, Tegan Maharaj, Martin Weiss, Nasim Rahaman, Hannah Alsdurf, Nanor Minoyan, Soren Harnois-Leblanc, Joanna Merckx, Andrew Williams, Victor Schmidt, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Akshay Patel, Yang Zhang, David L Buckeridge, Christopher Pal, Bernhard Schölkopf, Yoshua Bengio   +16 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Pandemic Recessions and Contact Tracing [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Abstract We study contact tracing in a new macro-epidemiological model with asymptomatic transmission and limited testing capacity. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that aims to reconstruct the infection chain of newly symptomatic agents.
Leonardo Melosi, Matthias Rottner
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Comparison of contact tracing methods: A modelling study [PDF]

Infectious Disease Modelling
Introduction: Contact tracing has been a key tool to contain the spread of diseases and was widely used by countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing has been challenging.
Joanna X.R. Tan, Lalitha Kurupatham, Zubaidah Said, Jeremy Chan, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Marc Ho, Vernon Lee, Alex R. Cook   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Performance and utility of contact tracing for COVID-19 in the WHO South-East Asia Region: implications for future pandemic preparedness [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
Summary: Contact tracing was widely implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its real-world performance and utility for decision-making remain poorly understood.
Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell, Kirsty Teague, Daniel Ll Strachan, Anna Barrett, Tiara Marthias, Clare E. Strachan, Pawinee Doungngern, Nishant Thakur, Mushtofa Kamal, Hannah Brindle, Yuka Jinnai, Masaya Kato, Florian Vogt   +12 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Lessons for future outbreaks from successful contact tracing systems in Asia [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific
Summary: Countries around the world had utilized contact tracing to support public health responses to curb transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joanna X.R. Tan, Hitoshi Oshitani, Lam Phung Khanh, Charuttaporn Jitpeera, Luca Ferretti, Alex R. Cook   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The influence of case factors and system factors on the timeliness of testing and contact tracing for COVID-19 in The Netherlands. [PDF]

Eur J Public Health
Bosdriesz JR, den Boogert EM, van Dijken S, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM, Götz HM, Goverse IE, Leenstra T, Petrignani MWF, Raven SFH, van der Loeff MFS, van den Hof S, Wevers K, Matser AA.   +12 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Clustering based Contact Tracing Analysis and Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 Infections [PDF]

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, 2022
INTRODUCTION: Contact tracing is a method to track the victims, which have been infected from the host with any particular disease.
Meenu Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, Sunil Chawla, Sunny Mishra, Sourabh Dhiman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of contact tracing with an agent-based model for simulating the spread of COVID-19: The Irish experience

Healthcare Analytics, 2023
Contact tracing is an important tool in managing infectious disease outbreaks and Ireland used a comprehensive contact tracing program to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Elizabeth Hunter, Sudipta Saha, Jwenish Kumawat, Ciara Carroll, John D. Kelleher, Claire Buckley, Conor McAloon, Patrica Kearney, Michelle Gilbert, Greg Martin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the impact of guideline communication from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services among US healthcare providers: COVID‐19 prevention counselling guidance

Nursing Open, 2023
Aim To evaluate healthcare provider awareness and uptake of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) prevention counselling and the delivery of prevention counselling to patients awaiting severe ...
Melanie M. Taylor, Arkaprava Deb, Bernita Frazier, James Reiss Lueken, Mansi Das, Joanna Molke, Erin Fitzgerald, Tom Ullian, Ridhu Nair, Marion Couch, Caitlin Turbyfill, Libby Horter, Cecilia Joshi, Nickolas DeLuca   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source