Abstract
Countries are rapidly developing digital contact tracing solutions to augment manual contact tracing. There is limited empirical evidence evaluating these tools. We conducted a feasibility study of a Bluetooth-enabled card with hospital staff in New Zealand (n = 42). We compared the card data against self-report contact surveys and a stronger Bluetooth device. The cards detected substantially more contacts than self-report contact surveys, while the concordance between Bluetooth devices was high, suggesting that the cards detected clinically relevant close contacts. There was high acceptability among participants, suggesting that their integration would be accepted by healthcare staff. As the pandemic shifts, there is a need to rapidly contact trace and conduct informed risk management, particularly in critical settings such as healthcare.
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