Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020

We report the effectiveness of automated text messaging for active surveillance of asymptomatic close contacts of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Cork/Kerry region of Ireland. In the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, 1,336 close contacts received 12,421 automated texts. Overall, 12...

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Autores principales: Barrett, Peter M, Bambury, Niamh, Kelly, Louise, Condon, Rosalind, Crompton, Janice, Sheahan, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32553064
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2000972
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author Barrett, Peter M
Bambury, Niamh
Kelly, Louise
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Crompton, Janice
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description We report the effectiveness of automated text messaging for active surveillance of asymptomatic close contacts of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Cork/Kerry region of Ireland. In the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, 1,336 close contacts received 12,421 automated texts. Overall, 120 contacts (9.0%) reported symptoms which required referral for testing and 35 (2.6%) tested positive for COVID-19. Non-response was high (n = 2,121; 17.1%) and this required substantial clinical and administrative resources for follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-74036402020-08-17 Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020 Barrett, Peter M Bambury, Niamh Kelly, Louise Condon, Rosalind Crompton, Janice Sheahan, Anne Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We report the effectiveness of automated text messaging for active surveillance of asymptomatic close contacts of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Cork/Kerry region of Ireland. In the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, 1,336 close contacts received 12,421 automated texts. Overall, 120 contacts (9.0%) reported symptoms which required referral for testing and 35 (2.6%) tested positive for COVID-19. Non-response was high (n = 2,121; 17.1%) and this required substantial clinical and administrative resources for follow-up. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7403640/ /pubmed/32553064 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2000972 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Barrett, Peter M
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title Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020
title_full Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020
title_fullStr Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020
title_full_unstemmed Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020
title_short Measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for COVID-19 in the south of Ireland, March to April 2020
title_sort measuring the effectiveness of an automated text messaging active surveillance system for covid-19 in the south of ireland, march to april 2020
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32553064
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2000972
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