Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases

Quick identification and isolation of patients with highly infectious diseases is extremely important in healthcare settings today. This study focused on the creation of a digital screening tool using a free and publicly available digital survey application to screen patients during a measles outbre...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ehni, Jordan, Moss, Marie, Herbison, Ilka, Anderson, Trevisia, Siju, Jemilat, Dugan, Kevin, Resnick, Garrison, Weisburd, Shari, Brown, Sean, Alexander, Kinta, Camins, Bernard, Javaid, Waleed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32653561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.008
_version_ 1783556469424128000
author Ehni, Jordan
Moss, Marie
Herbison, Ilka
Anderson, Trevisia
Siju, Jemilat
Dugan, Kevin
Resnick, Garrison
Weisburd, Shari
Brown, Sean
Alexander, Kinta
Camins, Bernard
Javaid, Waleed
author_facet Ehni, Jordan
Moss, Marie
Herbison, Ilka
Anderson, Trevisia
Siju, Jemilat
Dugan, Kevin
Resnick, Garrison
Weisburd, Shari
Brown, Sean
Alexander, Kinta
Camins, Bernard
Javaid, Waleed
author_sort Ehni, Jordan
collection PubMed
description Quick identification and isolation of patients with highly infectious diseases is extremely important in healthcare settings today. This study focused on the creation of a digital screening tool using a free and publicly available digital survey application to screen patients during a measles outbreak in New York City. The results indicate that digital tools are an effective alternative to paper tools due to their ease of use and remote compliance monitoring capabilities.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7346811
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-73468112020-07-10 Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases Ehni, Jordan Moss, Marie Herbison, Ilka Anderson, Trevisia Siju, Jemilat Dugan, Kevin Resnick, Garrison Weisburd, Shari Brown, Sean Alexander, Kinta Camins, Bernard Javaid, Waleed Am J Infect Control Brief Report Quick identification and isolation of patients with highly infectious diseases is extremely important in healthcare settings today. This study focused on the creation of a digital screening tool using a free and publicly available digital survey application to screen patients during a measles outbreak in New York City. The results indicate that digital tools are an effective alternative to paper tools due to their ease of use and remote compliance monitoring capabilities. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-02 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7346811/ /pubmed/32653561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.008 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Brief Report
Ehni, Jordan
Moss, Marie
Herbison, Ilka
Anderson, Trevisia
Siju, Jemilat
Dugan, Kevin
Resnick, Garrison
Weisburd, Shari
Brown, Sean
Alexander, Kinta
Camins, Bernard
Javaid, Waleed
Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title_full Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title_fullStr Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title_full_unstemmed Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title_short Utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
title_sort utilizing technology to enhance screening for highly infectious diseases
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32653561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.008
work_keys_str_mv AT ehnijordan utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT mossmarie utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT herbisonilka utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT andersontrevisia utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT sijujemilat utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT dugankevin utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT resnickgarrison utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT weisburdshari utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT brownsean utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT alexanderkinta utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT caminsbernard utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases
AT javaidwaleed utilizingtechnologytoenhancescreeningforhighlyinfectiousdiseases

Ejemplares similares