Misplaced Pages

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. 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. 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.

See also

• Disease surveillance – Monitoring spread of disease to establish patterns of progression
• Infection control – Medical discipline for preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infectionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• 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 usualPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Transmission – Passing of a pathogen from one organism to anotherPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Triage – Emergency medical process

References

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.

External links

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's When Caring for Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) or Patients with Confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Human Infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Person Under Investigation (PUI) and Case Report Form
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Illinois Department of Public Health's Case Definitions for MERS-CoV Patient Under Investigation (PUI)
• Eurosurveillance's Differential diagnosis of illness in patients under investigation for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Italy, February 2020

• Infection-control measures
• Medical hygiene