This section describes the handling of contacts in SORMAS. At this point, it should be noted that SORMAS works with contact situations, which ensures accurate epidemiological documentation. This becomes clear when contact persons were involved in several contact situations for different index cases - as a result, several contact situation files are created for the same contact person (the program recognizes these by means of duplicate detection, see Chapter 2.1.2.1).
Advantage: The personal data and recorded follow-up calls are synchronized between the individual contact situations created and do not have to be entered again.