contact tracing

Preferred Label : contact tracing;

MeSH definition : Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection. Contact tracing is a generally accepted method for the control of sexually transmitted diseases.; Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection.;

MeSH synonym : infectious disease contact tracing; tracing, contact; communicable disease contact tracing; Contact Investigation; Investigation, Contact; Contact Screening; Screening, Contact;

MeSH hyponym : notification, partner; Notifications, Partner; Partner Notifications; Partner Notification;

Related MeSH term : PUI Epidemiology; Epidemiology, PUI; Epidemiology, Close Contact; Epidemiology, Index Case; Index Patient Epidemiology; Epidemiology, Index Patient; Patient Zero Epidemiology; Epidemiology, Patient Zero;

MeSH annotation : IM; coord with disease /epidemiol or /transm (IM); coordinate with disease / epidemiol or / transm; coordinate with disease /epidemiol or /transm;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact tracing;

Details

Origin ID

D016358;

UMLS CUI

C0079161;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Infectious disease contact tracing [ICHI intervention]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Contact Tracing [NCIt concept]
- Contact tracing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- contact tracing [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
Record concept(s)
- Close Contact Epidemiology [MeSH concept]
- Index Case Epidemiology [MeSH concept]
- Person Under Investigation Epidemiology [MeSH concept]
- contact tracing [MeSH concept]
- notification, partner [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Contact Tracing [NCIt concept]
- Contact tracing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Disease Contact Investigation [NCIt concept]

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