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Wearables and MHealth Reviews (285) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2494) Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health (153) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (143) Surveillance Systems (492) Participatory Epidemiology and Surveillance (123) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1531) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1657) Theme Issue: Apps for COVID-19 (#Apps4Covid) (139) Innovative Methods in Public Health and Surveillance (360)

Published on in Vol 9, No 6 (2021): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/27753, first published .
Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

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James O'Connell1 Author Orcid Image ;   Manzar Abbas1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sarah Beecham1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jim Buckley1 Author Orcid Image ;   Muslim Chochlov1 Author Orcid Image ;   Brian Fitzgerald1 Author Orcid Image ;   Liam Glynn2 Author Orcid Image ;   Kevin Johnson3 Author Orcid Image ;   John Laffey4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Bairbre McNicholas4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Bashar Nuseibeh1, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Michael O'Callaghan2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ian O'Keeffe1 Author Orcid Image ;   Abdul Razzaq1 Author Orcid Image ;   Kaavya Rekanar1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ita Richardson1 Author Orcid Image ;   Andrew Simpkin7 Author Orcid Image ;   Cristiano Storni1 Author Orcid Image ;   Damyanka Tsvyatkova1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jane Walsh8 Author Orcid Image ;   Thomas Welsh1 Author Orcid Image ;   Derek O'Keeffe1, 4, 5 Author Orcid Image
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