Selected article for: "case identification and contact identification"

Author: Cho, Sung-il
Title: A New Measure for Assessing the Public Health Response to a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak
  • Document date: 2015_11_30
  • ID: zrx8l9d7_6
    Snippet: Over the course of responding to the outbreak in Korea, a contact tracing procedure was established that included three steps: contact identification by investigating the activities of the case and the people around the case, contact listing of all who had significant exposure to maintain communication and ensure preventive actions including quarantine, and contact follow-up for 14 days on a daily basis to detect any development of symptoms [5] ......
    Document: Over the course of responding to the outbreak in Korea, a contact tracing procedure was established that included three steps: contact identification by investigating the activities of the case and the people around the case, contact listing of all who had significant exposure to maintain communication and ensure preventive actions including quarantine, and contact follow-up for 14 days on a daily basis to detect any development of symptoms [5] . Contact tracing may be challenging because of the difficulty in obtaining accurate information about the patient's activities. Challenges in contact tracing have also been addressed for other infectious diseases [6, 7] .

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