TY - JOUR
T1 - A Framework for Sustainable Contact Tracing and Exposure Investigation for Large Health Systems
AU - Breeher, Laura
AU - Boon, Ashton
AU - Hainy, Caitlin
AU - Murad, M. Hassan
AU - Wittich, Christopher
AU - Swift, Melanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Contact tracing is a cornerstone of communicable disease containment and involves identifying, quarantining, and monitoring contacts of infected people. Although contact tracing is a known evidence-based strategy in the community setting, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the challenges to implementing labor-intensive contact tracing in the occupational setting of large health care systems and hospitals, the epicenter of the pandemic. We present a framework for feasible, scalable COVID-19 contact tracing in a large multistate health system in the United States employing approximately 69,000 health care personnel. The framework is shared with sufficient details to allow adoption or adaptation by other health systems. Continuous enhancement, optimization, and evaluation of the framework are ongoing.
AB - Contact tracing is a cornerstone of communicable disease containment and involves identifying, quarantining, and monitoring contacts of infected people. Although contact tracing is a known evidence-based strategy in the community setting, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the challenges to implementing labor-intensive contact tracing in the occupational setting of large health care systems and hospitals, the epicenter of the pandemic. We present a framework for feasible, scalable COVID-19 contact tracing in a large multistate health system in the United States employing approximately 69,000 health care personnel. The framework is shared with sufficient details to allow adoption or adaptation by other health systems. Continuous enhancement, optimization, and evaluation of the framework are ongoing.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.05.008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32561146
AN - SCOPUS:85087529968
SN - 0025-6196
VL - 95
SP - 1432
EP - 1444
JO - Mayo Clinic proceedings
JF - Mayo Clinic proceedings
IS - 7
ER -