Risk Diagrams Based on Primary Care Electronic Medical Records and Linked Real-Time PCR Data to Monitor Local COVID-19 Outbreaks During the Summer 2020: A Prospective Study Including 7,671,862 People in Catalonia

• Main Authors: Marti Catala (Author), Ermengol Coma (Author), Sergio Alonso (Author), Enrique Álvarez-Lacalle (Author), Silvia Cordomi (Author), Daniel López (Author), Francesc Fina (Author), Manuel Medina-Peralta (Author), Clara Prats (Author), Daniel Prieto-Alhambra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Monitoring transmission is a prerequisite for containing COVID-19. We report on effective potential growth (EPG) as a novel measure for the early identification of local outbreaks based on primary care electronic medical records (EMR) and PCR-confirmed cases. Secondly, we studied whether increasing...