Quantifying the Risk and Cost of Active Monitoring for Infectious Diseases

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Reich, Nicholas G ^a   Lessler, Justin ^b   Varma, Jay K ^c,d   Vora, Neil M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COST; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK;

EID: 85040822947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19406-x     Document Type: Article

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