Lessons from countries implementing find, test, trace, isolation and support policies in the rapid response of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review

Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies

(2021) Chad R. Wells et al.   Nature Communications

Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control

(2021) William J. Bradshaw et al.   Nature Communications

Countrywide population movement monitoring using mobile devices generated (big) data during the COVID-19 crisis

(2021) Miklos Szocska et al.   Scientific Reports

Emergence of a Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and the Importance of Diagnostic Testing: Why Partnership between Clinical Laboratories, Public Health Agencies, and Industry Is Essential to Control the Outbreak

(2020) Matthew J Binnicker   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

Secondary attack rate and superspreading events for SARS-CoV-2

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Assessment of Specimen Pooling to Conserve SARS CoV-2 Testing Resources

(2020) Baha Abdalhamid et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic can increase physical inactivity and the global burden of cardiovascular disease

(2020) Tiago Peçanha et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Strong correlations between power-law growth of COVID-19 in four continents and the inefficiency of soft quarantine strategies

(2020) Cesar Manchein et al.   CHAOS

Drive-through testing in COVID-19: experience from NHS Lothian

(2020) Katherine Hill et al.   CLINICAL MEDICINE

Only strict quarantine measures can curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Italy, 2020

(2020) Henrik Sjödin et al.   Eurosurveillance

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020

(2020) Kate Mark et al.   Eurosurveillance

Roll-out of SARS-CoV-2 testing for healthcare workers at a large NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, March 2020

(2020) Alexander J Keeley et al.   Eurosurveillance

Self-Isolation Compliance In The COVID-19 Era Influenced By Compensation: Findings From A Recent Survey In Israel

(2020) Moran Bodas et al.   HEALTH AFFAIRS

Changes in testing rates could mask the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) growth rate

(2020) Ryosuke Omori et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection of hospital isolation wards hygiene monitoring during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 outbreak in a Chinese hospital

(2020) Jie Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Information Technology–Based Tracing Strategy in Response to COVID-19 in South Korea—Privacy Controversies

(2020) Sangchul Park et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Impact of Online Information on Self-Isolation Intention During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study

(2020) Ali Farooq et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Containing COVID-19 Among 627,386 Persons in Contact With the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Passengers Who Disembarked in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics

(2020) Chi-Mai Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Stability issues of RT-PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2 for hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed with COVID-19

(2020) Yafang Li et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Interrupting COVID-19 transmission by implementing enhanced traffic control bundling: Implications for global prevention and control efforts

(2020) Muh-Yong Yen et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION

Reducing onward spread of COVID-19 from imported cases: quarantine and ‘stay at home’ measures for travellers and returning residents to Singapore

(2020) Calvin J Chiew et al.   JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE

Covid-19 — The Law and Limits of Quarantine

(2020) Wendy E. Parmet et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

How to improve adherence with quarantine: rapid review of the evidence

(2020) R.K. Webster et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

Rapid point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a community screening setting shows low sensitivity

(2020) M. Döhla et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

Laboratory testing of SARS‐CoV, MERS‐CoV, and SARS‐CoV‐2 (2019‐nCoV): Current status, challenges, and countermeasures

(2020) Ying Yan et al.   REVIEWS IN MEDICAL VIROLOGY

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing

(2020) Luca Ferretti et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Nadin Younes et al.   Viruses-Basel

Testing the repatriated for SARS-Cov2: Should laboratory-based quarantine replace traditional quarantine?

(2020) Jean Christophe Lagier et al.   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Mitigating the psychological effects of social isolation during the covid-19 pandemic

(2020) Mohammad S Razai et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

How the erosion of our public health system hobbled England’s covid-19 response

(2020) Richard Vize   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Quarantine Vehicle Scheduling for Transferring High-Risk Individuals in Epidemic Areas

(2020) Min-Xia Zhang et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods Before and After Symptom Onset

(2020) Hao-Yuan Cheng et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Comparison of Prevalence and Associated Factors of Anxiety and Depression Among People Affected by versus People Unaffected by Quarantine During the COVID-19 Epidemic in Southwestern China

(2020) Lei Lei et al.   MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR

Initial Investigation of Transmission of COVID-19 Among Crew Members During Quarantine of a Cruise Ship — Yokohama, Japan, February 2020

(2020) Kensaku Kakimoto et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

COVID-19 Mobile Positioning Data Contact Tracing and Patient Privacy Regulations: Exploratory Search of Global Response Strategies and the Use of Digital Tools in Nigeria

(2020) Iniobong Ekong et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Peer-to-Peer Contact Tracing: Development of a Privacy-Preserving Smartphone App

(2020) Tyler M Yasaka et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Utility of asymptomatic inpatient testing for COVID-19 in a low-prevalence setting: A multicenter point-prevalence study

(2020) Anthony D. Bai et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Diagnostic serial interval as a novel indicator for contact tracing effectiveness exemplified with the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea

(2020) Sofia K. Mettler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Multi-Stage Group Testing Improves Efficiency of Large-Scale COVID-19 Screening

(2020) J.N. Eberhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Efficacy of contact tracing for the containment of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

(2020) Matt J Keeling et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Internet Use, Risk Awareness, and Demographic Characteristics Associated With Engagement in Preventive Behaviors and Testing: Cross-Sectional Survey on COVID-19 in the United States

(2020) Siyue Li et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Motivation for Social Distancing and App Use as Complementary Measures to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic: Quantitative Survey (Preprint)

(2020) Kai Kaspar   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Testing of asymptomatic individuals for fast feedback-control of COVID-19 pandemics

(2020) Markus Müller et al.   PHYSICAL BIOLOGY

Underestimation of COVID-19 cases in Japan: an analysis of RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 among 47 prefectures in Japan

(2020) T Sawano et al.   QJM-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

A New System for Surveillance and Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Spatiotemporal Reporting Over Network and GPS

(2020) Shaoxiong Wang et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Acceptability of app-based contact tracing for COVID-19: Cross-country survey evidence (Preprint)

(2020) Samuel Altmann et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

COVID-19 contact-tracing apps: predicted uptake in the Netherlands based on a discrete choice experiment (Preprint)

(2020) Marcel Jonker et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Impact of delays on effectiveness of contact tracing strategies for COVID-19: a modelling study

(2020) Mirjam E Kretzschmar et al.   Lancet Public Health

Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19

(2020) Alberto Aleta et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

COVID-19 Testing

(2020) Zoe C Brooks et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Analysis of the Fatality Rate in Relation to Testing Capacity during the First 50 days of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Italy

(2020) Costanza Vicentini et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Simulation of pooled-sample analysis strategies for COVID-19 mass testing

(2020) Andreas Deckert et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Chest CT accuracy in diagnosing COVID-19 during the peak of the Italian epidemic: A retrospective correlation with RT-PCR testing and analysis of discordant cases

(2020) Zeno Falaschi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Contact tracing with digital assistance in Taiwan’s COVID-19 outbreak response

(2020) Shu-Wan Jian et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

All Hands on Deck: A synchronized whole-of-world approach for COVID-19 mitigation

(2020) Shahul H. Ebrahim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Predictors of self-reported symptoms and testing for COVID-19 in Canada using a nationally representative survey

(2020) Daphne C. Wu et al.   PLoS One

Is “no test is better than a bad test”? Impact of diagnostic uncertainty in mass testing on the spread of COVID-19

(2020) Nicholas Gray et al.   PLoS One

Effectiveness of contact tracing and quarantine on reducing COVID-19 transmission: a retrospective cohort study

(2020) Rui Malheiro et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

Massive and rapid COVID-19 testing is feasible by extraction-free SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR

(2020) Ioanna Smyrlaki et al.   Nature Communications

The Impact of Risk Perception on Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

(2020) Kefan Xie et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Challenges of Testing COVID-19 Cases in Bangladesh

(2020) Khan Rubayet Rahaman et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

A model-based evaluation of the efficacy of COVID-19 social distancing, testing and hospital triage policies

(2020) Audrey McCombs et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Clinical impact of molecular point-of-care testing for suspected COVID-19 in hospital (COV-19POC): a prospective, interventional, non-randomised, controlled study

(2020) Nathan J Brendish et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

COVID-19 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: testing frequency, cumulative cases and mortality analysis

(2020) Pascale Salameh   EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN HEALTH JOURNAL

Europe's Covid-19 outliers: German, Austrian and Swiss policy responses during the early stages of the 2020 pandemic

(2020) Zachary Desson et al.   Health Policy and Technology

Performance of digital contact tracing tools for COVID-19 response in Singapore (Preprint)

(2020) Zhilian Huang et al.   JMIR mHealth and uHealth

State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States

(2020) Weihsueh A. Chiu et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Modeling Contact Tracing Strategies for COVID-19 in the Context of Relaxed Physical Distancing Measures

(2020) Alyssa Bilinski et al.   JAMA Network Open

Development and Usability Testing of a Web-based COVID-19 Self-triage Platform

(2020) Justin Schrager et al.   Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Practical Diagnostic Accuracy of Nasopharyngeal Swab Testing for Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

(2020) Ravindra Gopaul et al.   Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Correlation of population mortality of COVID-19 and testing coverage: a comparison among 36 OECD countries

(2020) C. Wei et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Impact of Pool Testing in Detection of Asymptomatic Patients with COVID-19

(2020) David L Smalley et al.   Labmedicine

Evaluation of pool-based testing approaches to enable population-wide screening for COVID-19

(2020) Timo de Wolff et al.   PLoS One

From anxiety to action—Experience of threat, emotional states, reactance, and action preferences in the early days of COVID-19 self-isolation in Germany and Austria

(2020) Stefan Reiss et al.   PLoS One

Testing IgG antibodies against the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is sufficient and necessary for COVID-19 diagnosis

(2020) Victoria Indenbaum et al.   PLoS One

Adherence to safety and self-isolation guidelines, conspiracy and paranoia-like beliefs during COVID-19 pandemic in Poland - associations and moderators

(2020) Joachim Kowalski et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Establishment of COVID-19 testing laboratory in resource-limited settings: challenges and prospects reported from Ethiopia

(2020) Adugna Abera et al.   Global Health Action

Measuring mobility, disease connectivity and individual risk: a review of using mobile phone data and mHealth for travel medicine

(2019) Shengjie Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE

PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

(2014) Abigail M Methley et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Taiwan's traffic control bundle and the elimination of nosocomial severe acute respiratory syndrome among healthcare workers

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