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. 2020 Oct 29;8(10):e23148. doi: 10.2196/23148

Table 1.

Comparison of the number of patient contacts identified by a tag-based real-time locating system within the vicinity of the NCID and the TraceTogether app on iPhones and Android phones.

Phone type and physician number RTLSa TraceTogetherb RTLS+TraceTogether RTLS or TraceTogether Sensitivity of RTLSc (%) Sensitivity of TraceTogetherd (%)
iPhones

1 65 0 0 65 100 0

2 52 0 0 52 100 0

3 2 0 0 2 100 0

4 70 0 0 70 100 0

5 59 4 1 64 93.8 7.8

6 9 3 0 12 75 25

7 14 0 0 14 100 0

8 18 2 0 20 90 10

9 59 0 0 59 100 0

10 14 0 0 14 100 0

Total 362 9 1 372 97.6 2.7e
Android phones

11 83 1 2 86 98.8 3.5

12 61 0 0 61 100 0

13 11 0 1 12 100 8.3

14 78 5 2 85 94.1 8.2

15 12 0 0 12 100 0

16 80 12 6 98 87.8 18.4

17 43 2 0 45 95.6 4.4

18 42 10 3 55 81.8 23.6

Total 410 30 14 454 93.4 9.7e
iPhone+Android Phone

Total 772 39 15 826 95.3 6.5

aRTLS: real-time locating system.

bTraceTogether-only data includes contacts that were concurrently detected by the TraceTogether app and the NCID location-based RTLS to ensure that the encounters were within NCID’s vicinity.

cRTLS sensitivity = (number of contacts detected by RTLS + (RTLS+TraceTogether))/(number of contacts detected RTLS or TraceTogether).

dTraceTogether sensitivity = (number of contacts detected by TraceTogether + (RTLS+TraceTogether))/(number of contacts detected by RTLS or TraceTogether).

eP<.001 when the sensitivity of TraceTogether was compared between Android phones and iPhones.