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Contact tracing with a real-time location system: A case study of increasing relative effectiveness in an emergency department
BACKGROUND: Contact tracing is the systematic method of identifying individuals potentially exposed to infectious diseases. Electronic medical record (EMR) use for contact tracing is time-consuming and may miss exposed individuals. Real-time location systems (RTLSs) may improve contact identificatio...
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Format: | Online Article Text |
Language: | English |
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2017
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28967513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.08.014 |