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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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2023

M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet Open the ORCID record for M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet [Opens in a new window] ,
Ashraf Rjob ,
Jingwen Zhang Open the ORCID record for Jingwen Zhang [Opens in a new window] ,
Ruixuan Dai Open the ORCID record for Ruixuan Dai [Opens in a new window] ,
Ruiqi Wang Open the ORCID record for Ruiqi Wang [Opens in a new window] ,
Christopher Damulira ,
Reshad Hamauon ,
Jeff Candell ,
Jennie H. Kwon Open the ORCID record for Jennie H. Kwon [Opens in a new window]  and
Hilary Babcock Open the ORCID record for Hilary Babcock [Opens in a new window]
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M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Ashraf Rjob
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Mountain View Regional Medical Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Jingwen Zhang
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Ruixuan Dai
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Ruiqi Wang
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Christopher Damulira
Affiliation:
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Reshad Hamauon
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Jeff Candell
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Jennie H. Kwon
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Hilary Babcock
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Thomas C. Bailey
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Chenyang Lu
Affiliation:
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Victoria Fraser
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Corresponding author: M. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet; Email: m.c.vazquezguillamet@wust.edu
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Abstract

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.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , April 2024 , pp. 546 - 548
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© Washington University School of Medicine, 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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