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Travel-screening documentation to enable the “Identify–Isolate–Inform” framework for emerging infectious diseases: It’s all in the details

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2020

Sarimer M. Sánchez Open the ORCID record for Sarimer M. Sánchez [Opens in a new window] ,
Eileen F. Searle ,
David Rubins ,
Sayon Dutta ,
Winston Ware ,
Paul D. Biddinger  and
Erica S. Shenoy
Sarimer M. Sánchez*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Eileen F. Searle
Affiliation:
Center for Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Region 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogens Treatment Center, Massachusetts
David Rubins
Affiliation:
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Mass General Brigham Clinical Informatics
Sayon Dutta
Affiliation:
Mass General Brigham Clinical Informatics Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Winston Ware
Affiliation:
Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Paul D. Biddinger
Affiliation:
Center for Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Region 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogens Treatment Center, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Erica S. Shenoy
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Region 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogens Treatment Center, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Author for correspondence: Sarimer M. Sánchez, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and ongoing efforts for mitigation underscore the importance of universal travel and symptom screening. We analyzed adherence to documentation of travel and symptom screening through a travel navigator tool with clinical decision support to identify patients at risk for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 12 , December 2020 , pp. 1449 - 1451
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© 2020 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: A preliminary analysis of this data was submitted as a Poster Abstract for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Sixth International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections and will be published in a supplemental issue of SHEA’s scientific journal, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE).

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