The utility of video technology and enhanced infection control in reducing COVID-19 disease burden in a custodial setting - 25/05/21
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Highlights |
• | We created a COVID-19 outbreak management team (OMT) and used video surveillance for contact tracing. |
• | Medical and Nursing completed more than 150 personal protective equipment training sessions for staff. |
• | Video review and contact tracing lead to 602 and 314 medical isolation days for infected employees and residents and 3,060 and 4,170 quarantine days for close contacts. |
• | Prompt diagnosis and contact tracing by OMT lead to low-primary attack and positivity rates for both employees and residents. |
Résumé |
We describe the use of video technology to enhance case interviews, identify COVID-19 contacts, and determine exposures risk within a large juvenile temporary detention center.
We created a COVID-19 outbreak management protocol which included the formation of an outbreak management team and enhanced infection control practices using video surveillance. Currently, our institution's positivity rate remains low for both staff and residents largely because of the outbreak management team. Video technology combined with enhanced infection control practices can be a useful technique to reduce COVID-19 infections in custodial settings.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : Juvenile, Contact tracing, Technology, Digital, Video, SAR-CoV-2, Prevention
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| Author Contributions: All authors wrote and edited the manuscript. |
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| Conflicts of interest: None declared by all authors. |
Vol 49 - N° 6
P. 852-854 - juin 2021 Retour au numéro
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