title: A New Measure for Assessing the Public Health Response to a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak.
abstract: Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conceptual framework to describe the process of contact monitoring, and proposes a new measure called the "timely quarantined proportion" as a tool to assess the adequacy of a public health response.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-il
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D018352:Coronavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011790:Quarantine; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Contact tracing; Isolation; Quarantine; Republic of Korea; Surveillance; Transmission