Partida-Hanon A, Díaz-Garrido R, Mendiguren-Santiago JM, Gómez-Paredes L, Muñoz-Gutiérrrez J, Miguel-Rodríguez MA, Reinoso-Barbero L. Successful pandemic management through computer science: a case study of a financial corporation with workers on premises.
Front Public Health 2023;
11:1208751. [PMID:
38045981 PMCID:
PMC10691253 DOI:
10.3389/fpubh.2023.1208751]
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Abstract
Background
In November 2019, an infectious agent that caused a severe acute respiratory illness was first detected in China. Its rapid spread resulted in a global lockdown with negative economic impacts. In this regard, we expose the solutions proposed by a multinational financial institution that maintained their workers on premises, so this methodology can be applied to possible future health crisis.
Objectives
To ensure a secure workplace for the personnel on premises employing biomedical prevention measures and computational tools.
Methods
Professionals were subjected to recurrent COVID-19 diagnostic tests during the pandemic. The sanitary team implemented an individual following to all personnel and introduced the information in databases. The data collected were used for clustering algorithms, decision trees, and networking diagrams to predict outbreaks in the workplace. Individualized control panels assisted the decision-making process to increase, maintain, or relax restrictive measures.
Results
55,789 diagnostic tests were performed. A positive correlation was observed between the cumulative incidence reported by Madrid's Ministry of Health and the headcount. No correlation was observed for occupational infections, representing 1.9% of the total positives. An overall 1.7% of the cases continued testing positive for COVID-19 after 14 days of quarantine.
Conclusion
Based on a combined approach of medical and computational science tools, we propose a management model that can be extended to other industries that can be applied to possible future health crises. This work shows that this model resulted in a safe workplace with a low probability of infection among workers during the pandemic.
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