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cord-276763-x3dqi0ym	Lowery-North, Douglas W.	Measuring Social Contacts in the Emergency Department	2013-08-21		.txt	text/plain	6202	335	55	During study observation periods, patients and staff were given RFID tags to wear. We report here the results of a year-long deployment of a RFID system covering all areas of an adult ED, describing the contacts between and among patients and staff. Furthermore, during the twelve-hour study periods, research assistants interacted with the system in real time to locate patients, staff, and equipment. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient admission data are shown in Table 1 , summarized for the population over the year, all patients in our 81 sampled shifts, and patient study participants only. Informal observations of interpersonal behavior made by research study staff suggest no change in number or duration of interpersonal contacts. In the study with the most comparable setting and methods, Gundlapalli and colleagues report data on contacts between 1261 patients and 87 staff in a pediatric hospital ED collected over the course of a randomly chosen month [20] .	./cache/cord-276763-x3dqi0ym.txt	./txt/cord-276763-x3dqi0ym.txt