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

• Main Authors: O'Connell, James (Author), Abbas, Manzar (Author), Beecham, Sarah (Author), Buckley, Jim (Author), Chochlov, Muslim (Author), Fitzgerald, Brian (Author), Glynn, Liam (Author), Johnson, Kevin (Author), Laffey, John (Author), McNicholas, Bairbre (Author), Nuseibeh, Bashar (Author), O'Callaghan, Michael (Author), O'Keeffe, Ian (Author), Razzaq, Abdul (Author), Rekanar, Kaavya (Author), Richardson, Ita (Author), Simpkin, Andrew (Author), Storni, Cristiano (Author), Tsvyatkova, Damyanka (Author), Walsh, Jane (Author), Welsh, Thomas (Author), O'Keeffe, Derek (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundDigital 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. Th...