Efficacy of a student-led community contact tracing program partnered with an academic medical center during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Communicable diseases
Community health services
Contact tracing
Coronavirus infection
Interdisciplinary research
Journal
Annals of epidemiology
ISSN: 1873-2585
Titre abrégé: Ann Epidemiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9100013
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2021
Apr 2021
Historique:
received:
17
08
2020
revised:
14
10
2020
accepted:
15
10
2020
entrez:
29
3
2021
pubmed:
30
3
2021
medline:
2
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Contact tracing has proven successful at controlling coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) globally, and the Center for Health Security has recommended that the United States add 100,000 contact tracers to the current workforce. To address gaps in local contact tracing, health professional students partnered with their academic institution to conduct contact tracing for all COVID-19 cases diagnosed onsite, which included identifying and reaching their contacts, educating participants, and providing social resources to support effective quarantine and isolation. From March 24 to May 28, 536 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases were contacted and reported an average of 2.6 contacts. Contacts were informed of their exposure, asked to quarantine, and monitored for the onset of symptoms. Callers reached 94% of cases and 84% of contacts. Seventy-four percent of cases reported at least one contact. Household members had higher rates of reporting symptoms (odds ratio, 1.65; 95% confidence interval, 1.19-2.28). The average test turnaround time decreased from 21.8 days for the first patients of this program to 2.3 days on the eleventh week. This provides evidence for the untapped potential of community contact tracing to respond to regional needs, confront barriers to effective quarantine, and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33775279
pii: S1047-2797(20)30394-X
doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.10.004
pmc: PMC7579098
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
26-33.e1Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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