Leveraging Bluetooth low-energy technology to improve contact tracing among healthcare personnel in hospital setting during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

To improve contact tracing for healthcare workers, we built and configured a Bluetooth low-energy system. We predicted close contacts with great accuracy and provided an additional contact yield of 14.8%. This system would decrease the effective reproduction number by 56% and would unnecessarily qua...

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Published inInfection control and hospital epidemiology Vol. 45; no. 4; p. 546
Main Authors Vazquez Guillamet, M Cristina, Rjob, Ashraf, Zhang, Jingwen, Dai, Ruixuan, Wang, Ruiqi, Damulira, Christopher, Hamauon, Reshad, Candell, Jeff, Kwon, Jennie H, Babcock, Hilary, Bailey, Thomas C, Lu, Chenyang, Fraser, Victoria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.04.2024
Subjects
Contact Tracing
COVID-19 - prevention & control
Delivery of Health Care
Health Personnel
Humans
Pandemics - prevention & control
Quarantine
SARS-CoV-2
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Summary:To improve contact tracing for healthcare workers, we built and configured a Bluetooth low-energy system. We predicted close contacts with great accuracy and provided an additional contact yield of 14.8%. This system would decrease the effective reproduction number by 56% and would unnecessarily quarantine 0.74% of employees weekly.
ISSN:1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2023.227