Tracing COVID-19 Source of Infection Among Health Personnel in a Pediatric Hospital

Frontiers in Pediatrics

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Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni¹  Fernando Ortega-Riosvelasco²  Nadia González-García³  Ana Estela Gamiño-Arroyo²  Guillermo Alejandro Espinosa-González²  Juan Manuel Valladares-Wagner⁴  Araceli Saldívar-Flores⁵  Olivia Aguilar-Guzmán⁵  Juan Carlos Sanchez-Pujol²  Briseida López-Martínez⁶  Mónica Villa-Guillén⁷  Israel Parra-Ortega⁸  Lourdes María del Carmen Jamaica-Balderas⁹  Juan José Luis Sienra-Monge^1,10  Ana Carmen Guerrero-Díaz² 

[1] Department of Comprehensive Patient Care, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Epidemiology, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Research, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Hospital Regional Reynosa Mexican Petroleum;Department of Nursing, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Teaching and Research, Laboratorios Ruiz;Department of Medical Management, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Pneumology, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez;Department of Outpatient Pediatric, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez

关键词: health personnel;    COVID-19;    hospital transmission;    community transmission;    SARS-CoV-2;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fped.2022.897113

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Health personnel (HP) have been universally recognized as especially susceptible to COVID-19. In Mexico, our home country, HP has one of the highest death rates from the disease. From the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, an office for initial attention for HP and a call center were established at a COVID-19 national reference pediatric hospital, aimed at early detection of COVID-19 cases and stopping local transmission. The detection and call center implementation and operation, and tracing methodology are described here. A total of 1,042 HP were evaluated, with 221 positive cases identified (7.7% of all HP currently working and 26% of the HP tested). Community contagion was most prevalent (46%), followed by other HP (27%), household (14%), and hospitalized patients (13%). Clusters and contact network analysis are discussed. This is one of the first reports that address the details of the implementation process of contact tracing in a pediatric hospital from the perspective of a hybrid hospital with COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 areas.

【 授权许可】

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