Scalable Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Augment Public Health Activities During Epidemic Peaks.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Scalable strategies to reduce the time burden and increase contact tracing efficiency are crucial during early waves and peaks of infectious transmission.

Design

We enrolled a cohort of SARS-CoV-2-positive seed cases into a peer recruitment study testing social network methodology and a novel electronic platform to increase contact tracing efficiency.

Setting

Index cases were recruited from an academic medical center and requested to recruit their local social contacts for enrollment and SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Participants

A total of 509 adult participants enrolled over 19 months (384 seed cases and 125 social peers).

Intervention

Participants completed a survey and were then eligible to recruit their social contacts with unique "coupons" for enro

SUBMITTER: Pasquale DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10549909 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature