The Effectiveness of Quarantine to Control the Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Rapid Review
52 Pages Posted: 12 Mar 2020
Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit
Danube University Krems - Department for Evidencebased Medicine and Evaluation
Andrea Chapman
Danube University Krems - Department for Evidencebased Medicine and Evaluation
Abstract
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly emerging disease that infected over 87,000 people within two months. To support the World Health Organization (WHO) with their recommendations on quarantine, we conducted a rapid review on the effectiveness of quarantine during severe coronavirus outbreaks.
Methods: An information specialist searched PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, WHO Global Index Medicus, Embase, and CINAHL on February 12, 2020 and WHO provided records from daily searches in Chinese databases. Two investigators independently screened 30% of records; a single reviewer screened the remaining 70%. Two reviewers screened all potentially relevant full-text publications independently. Data extraction, and quality assessment of evidence was done by one investigator and checked by a second.