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ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2023

Digital Point Solutions for Extending Contact Tracing Capacity.

Anicia Santos, Gloria Nuñez, Stacy La, Jammal H Dorsey, Swati Shah Patel, Karen G Luk, Kristen Brillantes, Rebecca Birnbaum, Melissa Boyette, Eleanor Peters Bergquist and 1 more

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Article in Sexually transmitted diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anicia SantosFrom the Resolve to Save Lives, an Initiative of Vital Strategies, New York, NY.
Gloria Nuñez
Stacy La
Jammal H Dorsey
Swati Shah Patel
Karen G Luk
Kristen Brillantes
Rebecca Birnbaum
Melissa Boyette
Eleanor Peters Bergquist
Amanda McClelland
Vital Strategies · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInitial COVID-19 surges in the United States created a need for technology to supplement human resources to increase efficiency and efficacy.

methodsResolve to Save Lives worked with jurisdictions to co-design four technology solutions-Epi Viaduct data pipeline, Epi Contacts contact elicitation webform, Epi Locator contact information search plugin, and Epi Viewpoint case management system (CMS)-to expand the capacity of case investigation and contact tracing (CI/CT) teams. We assessed impact on reducing CI/CT time intervals for COVID-19 using product data and user feedback.

resultsEpi Viaduct accelerated the transfer of approximately 7,400,000 records from an electronic laboratory reporting system in a single jurisdiction to the respective CMS from more than 2.5 hours to less than 1 minute and reduced time to remove duplicate laboratory results from multiple days to less than 6 hours. Epi Contacts focused on increasing the efficacy of contact elicitation, and during a single period, 10% of index cases (9,440 of 96,319) completed Epi Contacts for a total of approximately 18,700 contacts elicited. User interviews indicated the tool increased speed of CI/CT workflows. In total, 134,410 searches were run in Epi Locator by 7320 distinct users-75% of which returned 1 or more person matches. A simple CMS, Epi Viewpoint, was developed and completed, but not deployed.

conclusionsSystems to mount large-scale population-based contact tracing programs were developed and implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and can be adapted for CI/CT programs aiming to control the spread of other communicable diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases.

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COVID-19Contact TracingHumansLaboratoriesPandemicsUnited States

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PMCPMC10348610
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