De-escalation strategies for non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks: a rapid review and a proposed dynamic de-escalation framework
ZIG 2 completed a systematic review of de-escalation strategies of non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks.
The severity of COVID-19, as well as the speed and scale of its spread, has posed a global challenge. Countries around the world have implemented stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions to control transmission and prevent health systems being overwhelmed. A literature review focusing on literature published since 2000 relating to pandemics and infectious disease outbreaks was conducted. The review identified 27 de-escalation criteria including information-based criteria such as consistent decreases in the number of confirmed cases, as well as capacity-based criteria such as the ability of health systems to treat all patients within normal capacity and capacity to test all suspected cases. A dynamic de-escalation framework was proposed based on the reviewed literature.
A report as well as an article from this analysis have been developed.
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