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

M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet; Ashraf Rjob; Jingwen Zhang; Ruixuan Dai; Ruiqi Wang; Christopher Damulira; Reshad Hamauon; Jeff Candell; Jennie H. Kwon; Hilary Babcock; Thomas C. Bailey; Chenyang Lu; Victoria Fraser

doi:10.1017/ice.2023.227

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

M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet
, Ashraf Rjob
, Jingwen Zhang
, Ruixuan Dai
, Ruiqi Wang
, Christopher Damulira
, Reshad Hamauon
, Jeff Candell
, Jennie H. Kwon
, Hilary Babcock
, Thomas C. Bailey
, Chenyang Lu
, Victoria Fraser

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	546-548
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	45
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.227
State	Published - Apr 20 2024

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Vazquez Guillamet, M. C., Rjob, A., Zhang, J., Dai, R., Wang, R., Damulira, C., Hamauon, R., Candell, J., Kwon, J. H., Babcock, H., Bailey, T. C., Lu, C., & Fraser, V. (2024). Leveraging Bluetooth low-energy technology to improve contact tracing among healthcare personnel in hospital setting during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 45(4), 546-548. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.227

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Leveraging Bluetooth low-energy technology to improve contact tracing among healthcare personnel in hospital setting during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. / Vazquez Guillamet, M. Cristina; Rjob, Ashraf; Zhang, Jingwen et al.
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