Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital 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, testing, and health care worker case management. The international experience of digital contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how challenging their design and deployment are.

Objective

This study aims to derive and summarize best practice guidance for the design of the ideal digital contact tracing app.

Methods

A collaborative cross-disciplinary approach was used to derive best practice guidance for designing the ideal digital contact tracing app. A search of the indexed and gray literature was co

SUBMITTER: O'Connell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189288 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature