Predicting Quarantine Failure Rates

Day, Troy

doi:10.3201/eid1003.030502

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Predicting Quarantine Failure Rates

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Mar 2004
By Day, Troy

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Day, Troy
Description:

Preemptive quarantine through contact-tracing effectively controls emerging infectious diseases. Occasionally this quarantine fails, however, and infected persons are released. The probability of quarantine failure is typically estimated from disease-specific data. Here a simple, exact estimate of the failure rate is derived that does not depend on disease-specific parameters. This estimate is universally applicable to all infectious diseases.
Subjects:

Communicable Disease Control Contact-tracing Dispatch Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Humans Incubation Time Parasite Predictive Value Of Tests Probability Quarantine Sample Size
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 10(3):487-488.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Volume:

10
Issue:

3
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:9a5392fc6083b764f405868166a6f4c4fa1fcd92dfd5fa59039949693b3ff8ab
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14414/cdc_14414_DS1.pdf
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