Leveraging Bluetooth low-energy technology to improve contact tracing among healthcare personnel in hospital setting during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Apr;45(4):546-548. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.227. Epub 2023 Nov 20.

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.

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19* / prevention & control
  • Contact Tracing
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Pandemics / prevention & control
  • Quarantine
  • SARS-CoV-2