大学领导的COVID-19病例调查和联系人追踪计划的影响
Meron Siira1, Kristin R V Harrington, Kwardel Lewis
1Author Affiliations: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (Ms Siira and Drs Harrington, Chamberlain, Cegielski, and Gandhi); Student Health Services, Emory University (Mss Lewis and Rothschild, and Dr Rabinovitz); Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Emory University (Ms Graham); Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, Emory University (Mr Shartar and Dr Isakov); Human Resources, Emory University (Ms Milazzo); Office of Information Technology, Emory University (Dr Crubezy and Mr Olsen); Division of Campus Life, Emory University (Mr Clark and Ms Gelaye); Dekalb Board of Health (Dr Xing and Mr Patimeteeporn); Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (Dr Gandhi); and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Gandhi).
埃莫里大学 埃莫里大学
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 传染病爆发应对行动
背景情况:
- 在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行严重扰乱了高等教育.
- 大学实施了各种公共卫生策略,以减轻病毒的传播.
- 评估这些大学主导的反应为未来的公共卫生紧急情况提供了关键的见解.
研究的目的:
- 描述2020-2021学年埃默里大学COVID-19的流行病学情况.
- 评估大学主导的案件调查和联系人追踪计划的表现.
- 评估在流行病期间增加公共卫生当局努力的有效性.
主要方法:
- 对案件调查和联系人追踪操作的质量指标的分析.
- 评估程序的及时性和整体性能.
- 评估面试完成率和接触者检疫开始的时间.
主要成果:
- 在埃默里大学的学生,教师和工作人员中发现了1267例COVID-19病例.
- 98%的病例和密切接触者成功接受了采访,87%的病例在同一天接受了采访.
- 46%的受访接触者在面试前开始隔离;13%的受访接触者转化为病例.
结论:
- 埃莫里大学的COVID-19应对计划展示了有效的病例调查和联系人追踪.
- 该计划的绩效指标为未来大学领导的疫情应对提供了可操作的数据.
- 已建立的结构和数据收集为在未来的健康危机期间指导类似计划提供了一个模型.
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