Use of clinical data to augment healthcare worker contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This work examined the secondary use of clinical data from the electronic health record (EHR) for screening our healthcare worker (HCW) population for potential exposures to patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Materials and methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study at a free-standing, quaternary care pediatric hospital comparing first-degree, patient-HCW pairs identified by the hospital's COVID-19 contact tracing team (CTT) to those identified using EHR clinical event data (EHR Report). The primary outcome was the number of patient-HCW pairs detected by each process.

Results

Among 233 patients with COVID-19, our EHR Report identified 4116 patient-HCW pairs, including 2365 (30.0%) of the 7890 pairs detected by the CTT. The EHR Report also re

SUBMITTER: Hong P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8714290 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature