Development and Delivery of a Real-time Hospital-onset COVID-19 Surveillance System Using Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding nosocomial acquisition, outbreaks, and transmission chains in real time will be fundamental to ensuring infection-prevention measures are effective in controlling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in healthcare. We report the design and implementation of a hospital-onset COVID-19 infection (HOCI) surveillance system for an acute healthcare setting to target prevention interventions.

Methods

The study took place in a large teaching hospital group in London, United Kingdom. All patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 between 4 March and 14 April 2020 were included. Utilizing data routinely collected through electronic healthcare systems we developed a novel surveillance system for determining and reporting HOCI incidence and providing real-time network analys

SUBMITTER: Price JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454383 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature