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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
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To Contact Tracing... and Beyond! [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
To the Editor—We write to endorse and extend the thoughts of Nosyk et al on contact tracing, which we strongly agree is an opportunity to achieve additional public health goals, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Daniel, Westreich, Samuel M, Jenness, Julia L, Marcus   +2 more
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Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2021
BackgroundDigital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine ...
O'Connell, James, Abbas, Manzar, Beecham, Sarah, Buckley, Jim, Chochlov, Muslim, Fitzgerald, Brian, Glynn, Liam, Johnson, Kevin, Laffey, John, McNicholas, Bairbre, Nuseibeh, Bashar, O'Callaghan, Michael, O'Keeffe, Ian, Razzaq, Abdul, Rekanar, Kaavya, Richardson, Ita, Simpkin, Andrew, Storni, Cristiano, Tsvyatkova, Damyanka, Walsh, Jane, Welsh, Thomas, O'Keeffe, Derek   +21 more
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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
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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
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Factors Affecting COVID-19 Transmission and Modelling of Close Contact Tracing Strategies

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2021
Background: Close contact tracing is an essential measure that countries are applying to combat the epidemic of COVID-19. The purpose of contact tracing is to rapidly identify potentially infected individuals and prevent further spread of the disease. In
Shahram Yazdani, Majid Heydari, Zeynab Foroughi, Hadi Jabali   +3 more
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Contact tracing

SIGSPATIAL Special, 2020
As pandemic wide spread results in locking down vital facilities, digital contact tracing is deemed as a key for re-opening. However, current efforts in digital contact tracing, running as mobile apps on users' smartphones, fall short in being effective and present two major weaknesses related to accessibility and apparent privacy concern augmentation.
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sofiane Abbar, Rade Stanojevic   +2 more
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Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2021
Introduction: Contact tracing has the potential to control outbreaks without the need for stringent physical distancing policies, e.g. civil lockdowns. Unlike forward contact tracing, backward contact tracing identifies the source of newly detected cases.
Akira Endo, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Working Group, Quentin J. Leclerc, Gwenan M. Knight, Graham F. Medley, Katherine E. Atkins, Sebastian Funk, Adam J. Kucharski   +7 more
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Key performance indicators of COVID-19 contact tracing in Belgium from September 2020 to December 2021.

PLoS ONE, 2023
The goal of tracing, testing, and quarantining contacts of infected individuals is to contain the spread of infectious diseases, a strategy widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, limited research exists on the effectiveness of contact tracing,
Cécile Kremer, Lander Willem, Jorden Boone, Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, Naïma Hammami, Christel Faes, Niel Hens   +6 more
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Timeliness of contact tracing among flight passengers during the COVID-19 epidemic in Vietnam

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background International air travel plays an important role in the global spread of SARS-CoV-2, and tracing of close contacts is an integral part of the public health response to COVID-19.
Thai Quang Pham, Ngoc-Anh Hoang, Ha-Linh Quach, Khanh Cong Nguyen, Samantha Colquhoun, Stephen Lambert, Luong Huy Duong, Quang Dai Tran, Duc Anh Ha, Dinh Cong Phung, Nghia Duy Ngu, Tu Anh Tran, Quang Ngoc La, Tai Trong Nguyen, Quynh Mai Thi Le, Duong Nhu Tran, Florian Vogt, Duc-Anh Dang   +17 more
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