Hospital-Based Contact Tracing of Patients With COVID-19 and Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eastern India: Cross-sectional Study.
Durgesh Prasad SahooArvind Kumar SinghDinesh Prasad SahuSomen Kumar PradhanBinod Kumar PatroGitanjali BatmanabaneBaijayantimala MishraBijayini BeheraAmbarish DasG Susmita DoraL AnandS M AzharJyolsna NairSasmita PanigrahiR AkshayaBimal Kumar SahooSubhakanta SahuSuchismita SahooPublished in: JMIR formative research (2021)
Contact tracing and risk stratification were effective and helped to reduce the number of HCWs requiring quarantine. There was also a decline in the number of high-risk contacts during the study period. This indicates the role of the implementation of hospital-based, COVID-19-related infection control strategies. The contact tracing and risk stratification approaches that were designed in this study can also be implemented in other health care settings.