December 15, 2020

Evaluating Intervention Strategies in Controlling COVID-19 Spread in Care Homes: An Agent-Based Model

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Modeling and Prediction

Keywords (Tags): candidate, health care setting, modeling prediction, report, summarize

Routine testing of staff in care homes was shown to be more effective than other infection control interventions, according to a transmission model parameterized to a care home setting in Scotland. Using isolation of symptomatic residents, testing of new admissions, social distancing, and restricted visiting as the reference intervention, the addition of routine testing of staff outperformed 14-day quarantine of new admissions, closing care home to new admissions in the presence of a symptomatic case, or routine testing of residents.

Nguyen et al. (Dec 14, 2020). Evaluating Intervention Strategies in Controlling COVID-19 Spread in Care Homes: An Agent-Based Model. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1369