Healthcare personnel interactive pathogen exposure response system.

Authors :: Smith LL
Fallon SA
Virk ZQ
Salinas AB
Curless MS
Cosgrove SE
Maragakis LL
Rock C
Klein EY
Source :: Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2023 Aug; Vol. 44 (8), pp. 1358-1360. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 28.
Publication Year :: 2023
Abstract: Exposure investigations are labor intensive and vulnerable to recall bias. We developed an algorithm to identify healthcare personnel (HCP) interactions from the electronic health record (EHR), and we evaluated its accuracy against conventional exposure investigations. The EHR algorithm identified every known transmission and used ranking to produce a manageable contact list.