The Potential Role of an Adjunctive Real-Time Locating System in Preventing Secondary Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a Hospital Environment: Retrospective Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been an increasing demand for new technologies regarding infection control in hospital settings to reduce the burden of contact tracing.

Objective

This study aimed to compare the validity of a real-time locating system (RTLS) with that of the conventional contact tracing method for identifying high-risk contact cases associated with the secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Methods

A retrospective case-control study involving in-hospital contact cases of confirmed COVID-19 patients, who were diagnosed from January 23 to March 25, 2022, was conducted at a university hospital in South Korea. Contact cases were identified using either the conventional method or the RTLS. The primary endpoint of this study was secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 amon

SUBMITTER: Kim MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9580994 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature