ReviewEmerging infectious diseases2015
Entry screening for infectious diseases in humans.
Review in Emerging infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exit and Entry Screening Practices for Infectious Diseases among Travelers at Points of Entry: Looking for Evidence on Public Health Impact.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Policy challenges in the provision of COVID-19 border screening: evidence from eight countries.BMC public health · 2026Review
- Good Practices for Managing Acute Respiratory Viral Infections at Aerial Entry Points: A Scoping Review.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2026Article
- A fundamental limit to the effectiveness of traveller screening with molecular tests.Epidemiology and infection · 2025Article
- Pre-departure PCR testing of travellers for SARS-CoV-2 was an effective tool in limiting transmission in Greenland during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Epidemiological Characteristics of Overseas-Imported Infectious Diseases Identified through Airport Health-Screening Measures: A Case Study on Fuzhou, China.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on malaria transmission in South Africa.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- The Unintended Consequences of Information Provision: The World Health Organization and Border Restrictions during COVID-19.International studies perspectives · 2023Article
- Revisiting the Effects of High-Speed Railway Transfers in the Early COVID-19 Cross-Province Transmission in Mainland China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Review of the efficacy of infrared thermography for screening infectious diseases with applications to COVID-19.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2021Review
- Social Media Efficacy in Crisis Management: Effectiveness of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions to Manage COVID-19 Challenges.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Human mobility and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a negative binomial regression analysis.Public health · 2020Article
- The Use of Digital Health in the Detection and Management of COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Wuhan novel coronavirus (COVID-19): why global control is challenging?Public health · 2020Article
- Implementation of a drive-through testing clinic in Qatar for residents having recently returned from a country with a COVID-19 travel warning.Qatar medical journal · 2020Article
- Concealing Disease: Trade and Travel Barriers and the Timeliness of Outbreak Reporting.International studies perspectives · 2019Article
- A decision-support framework to optimize border control for global outbreak mitigation.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Customs officers in relation to viral infections, tuberculosis, psittacosis and environmental health risk.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic of 2003 and the influenza pandemic of 2009, many countries instituted border measures as a means of stopping or slowing the spread of disease. The measures, usually consisting of a combination of border entry/exit screening, quarantine, isolation, and communications, were resource intensive, and modeling and observational studies indicate that border screening is not effective at detecting infectious persons. Moreover, border screening has high opportunity costs, financially and in terms of the use of scarce public health staff resources during a time of high need. We discuss the border-screening experiences with SARS and influenza and propose an approach to decision-making for future pandemics. We conclude that outbreak-associated communications for travelers at border entry points, together with effective communication with clinicians and more effective disease control measures in the community, may be a more effective approach to the international control of communicable diseases.
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