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A patient under investigation (or a person under investigation) refers to a person who had been in close contact with a person with confirmed infection or/and may have been to place where there is an outbreak or superspreading event.[1][2][3] This person exhibits the symptoms of the disease and is required to be tested, and undergo a quarantine or isolation while waiting for the laboratory results.[4][5][6] It is a term used by health care workers in classifying patients during evaluation and testing in contact tracing in times of infectious disease outbreaks.[7][8]

See also

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  • Disease surveillance – Monitoring spread of disease to establish patterns of progression
  • Infection control – Medical discipline for preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection
  • Pandemic prevention – Organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics
  • Social distancing – Infection control technique by keeping a distance from each other
  • Super-spreader – Event in which 3 or more people attend and an infectious disease is spread much more than usual
  • Transmission – Passing of a pathogen from one organism to another
  • Triage – Emergency medical process

References

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  1. ^ "CDC Broadens 'Person Under Investigation' Definition for COVID-19".
  2. ^ "Guidelines for Evaluating and Testing for COVID-19 Coronavirus (CDC)". MedicineNet. 26 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Pimentel to DOJ: I was not a PUI when I went to Makati Med". Rappler. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  4. ^ Modesto, Catherine (20 March 2020). "How COVID-19 testing is conducted in PH". CNN Philippines. Archived from the original on 3 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Center for Disease Control Patient Under Investigation Definition". Military Health System. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. ^ Salameda, Austin (24 March 2020). "The CoviD 19 Saga: PUM vs PUI, what's in a Word?". Digital News Exchange.
  7. ^ "Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  8. ^ "Interim Guidance for Healthcare Professionals". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 August 2019.
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