ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2021
Use of clinical data to augment healthcare worker contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- An Effective Mechanism for the Early Detection and Containment of Healthcare Worker Infections in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- COVID-19 vaccination and test management for healthcare workers-development, implementation and feasibility of a custom human resources information platform at a university hospital.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Evolution of social contacts patterns in France over the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: results from the SocialCov survey.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Contact tracing strategies for infectious diseases: A systematic literature review.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Digital Contact Tracing Implementation Among Leaders and Health Care Workers in a Pediatric Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Interview Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- The Use of Contact Tracing Technologies for Infection Prevention and Control Purposes in Nosocomial Settings: A Systematic Literature Review.Infectious disease reports · 2024Review
- Infection Risk Prediction in Healthcare Settings: Lessons from COVID-19 Contact Tracing.Infectious diseases & clinical microbiology · 2024Article
- An Examination of Responses to COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Efforts in Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx Communities of Los Angeles.Health equity · 2024Article
- Human resource management (HRM) strategies of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Healthcare personnel interactive pathogen exposure response system.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- Semi-automated contact tracing and management of contact precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic within a tertiary hospital.Infection prevention in practice · 2023Article
- Using event logs to observe interactions with electronic health records: an updated scoping review shows increasing use of vendor-derived measures.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis work examined the secondary use of clinical data from the electronic health record (EHR) for screening our healthcare worker (HCW) population for potential exposures to patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). MATERIALS AND
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study at a free-standing, quaternary care pediatric hospital comparing first-degree, patient-HCW pairs identified by the hospital's COVID-19 contact tracing team (CTT) to those identified using EHR clinical event data (EHR Report). The primary outcome was the number of patient-HCW pairs detected by each process.
resultsAmong 233 patients with COVID-19, our EHR Report identified 4116 patient-HCW pairs, including 2365 (30.0%) of the 7890 pairs detected by the CTT. The EHR Report also revealed 1751 pairs not identified by the CTT. The highest number of patient-HCW pairs per patient was detected in the inpatient care venue. Nurses comprised the most frequently identified HCW role overall.
conclusionsAutomated methods to screen HCWs for potential exposures to patients with COVID-19 using clinical event data from the EHR (1) are likely to improve epidemiological surveillance by contact tracing programs and (2) represent a viable and readily available strategy that should be considered by other institutions.
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