Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi
In this commentary, we relate our experience with contact tracing within the setting of a tertiary care institute and how it evolved over the course of the pandemic. The need for a contact tracing mechanism arose when the hospital's first COVID-19 positive employee emerged at the end of March 2...
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| author | Devashish Desai Anivita Aggarwal Komal Singh Shivdas Rajaram Naik Arvind Kumar Ravneet Kaur Naveet Wig |
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| description | In this commentary, we relate our experience with contact tracing within the setting of a tertiary care institute and how it evolved over the course of the pandemic. The need for a contact tracing mechanism arose when the hospital's first COVID-19 positive employee emerged at the end of March 2020. The central contact tracing team (CCTT) was subsequently established to perform this essential function. We describe the methodology followed by the CCTT as well as the practical hurdles encountered during contact tracing. The benefits of setting up an institutional contact tracing mechanism cannot be overemphasized. We strongly recommend setting up such a mechanism in all health-care institutes, not just for the COVID-19 pandemic but also for future respiratory disease outbreaks as well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0dd4975165b74f8f954e60d8aea88a6c2023-07-23T11:51:06ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Public Health and Primary Care2772-36662772-36742022-01-0132272910.4103/jphpc.jphpc_5_21Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New DelhiDevashish DesaiAnivita AggarwalKomal SinghShivdas Rajaram NaikArvind KumarRavneet KaurNaveet WigIn this commentary, we relate our experience with contact tracing within the setting of a tertiary care institute and how it evolved over the course of the pandemic. The need for a contact tracing mechanism arose when the hospital's first COVID-19 positive employee emerged at the end of March 2020. The central contact tracing team (CCTT) was subsequently established to perform this essential function. We describe the methodology followed by the CCTT as well as the practical hurdles encountered during contact tracing. The benefits of setting up an institutional contact tracing mechanism cannot be overemphasized. We strongly recommend setting up such a mechanism in all health-care institutes, not just for the COVID-19 pandemic but also for future respiratory disease outbreaks as well.http://www.jphpc.org/article.asp?issn=2772-3666;year=2022;volume=3;issue=2;spage=27;epage=29;aulast=Desaicontact tracingcovid-19health workerhospitalsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
| spellingShingle | Devashish Desai Anivita Aggarwal Komal Singh Shivdas Rajaram Naik Arvind Kumar Ravneet Kaur Naveet Wig Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi Journal of Public Health and Primary Care contact tracing covid-19 health worker hospital severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
| title | Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi |
| title_full | Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi |
| title_fullStr | Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi |
| title_short | Contact tracing in the hospital setting for COVID-19: An experience from AIIMS, New Delhi |
| title_sort | contact tracing in the hospital setting for covid 19 an experience from aiims new delhi |
| topic | contact tracing covid-19 health worker hospital severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
| url | http://www.jphpc.org/article.asp?issn=2772-3666;year=2022;volume=3;issue=2;spage=27;epage=29;aulast=Desai |
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