Toward a Common Performance and Effectiveness Terminology for Digital Proximity Tracing Applications.

ABSTRACT: Digital proximity tracing (DPT) for Sars-CoV-2 pandemic mitigation is a complex intervention with the primary goal to notify app users about possible risk exposures to infected persons. DPT not only relies on the technical functioning of the proximity tracing application and its backend server, but also on seamless integration of health system processes such as laboratory testing, communication of results (and their validation), generation of notification codes, manual contact tracing, and management of app-notified users. Policymakers and DPT operators need to know whether their system works as expected in terms of speed or yield (performance) and whether DPT is making an effective contribution to pandemic mitigation (also in comparison to and beyond established mitigation measures, parti

SUBMITTER: Lueks W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8521913 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature