Evaluation of contact tracing activities during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea, 2015.
The objective of the study was to present the findings of an audit tool aimed at assessing contact tracing activities during an Ebola outbreak.



The tool was based on Ebola guidelines and observations in the field. It was composed of 38 indicators covering contact tracing preparatives, resources, procedures and results.



All contact tracing teams were assessed in Boké and Conakry prefectures (24 supervisors, 22 community workers, 442 contacts) between 1 July and 10 August 2015. Contact lists had less than a 40% accomplishment rate. 7% of the contacts were not seen by community workers or supervisors. 'No touch policy' was fully respected.



Audit checklist helped to systematically identify critical issues related to contact tracing.
National School of Public Health, Madrid, Spain.|Deployed by the European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)/ Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN) under World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.
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Deployed by the European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)/ Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN) under World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.|Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB Sant Pau), Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) Barcelona, Spain.
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Deployed by the European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)/ Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN) under World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.|Santé Publique France, The French Public Health Agency, Saint-Maurice, France.
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Deployed by the European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)/ Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN) under World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.|Public Health Unit Loures-Odivelas, Primary Health Cluster of Loures-Odivelas, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Deployed by the European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)/ Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN) under World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland.|European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN), World Health Organization (WHO). Geneva, Switzerland.
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Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN), World Health Organization (WHO). Geneva, Switzerland.
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Global Outbreak Response Network (GOARN), World Health Organization (WHO). Geneva, Switzerland.
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D016358:Contact Tracing / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016701:Guinea; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods
Assessment; Contact tracing; Ebola virus; Outbreak; West Africa