Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study

Anticipating staff shortage during the Omicron variant surge, we modified the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contingency guidelines at a healthcare system in Pakistan. Infected staff had a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test after 5–7 days of isolation, to decide a safe return-to-work. Th...

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Autores principales: Khan, Unab Inayat, Mahmood, Syed Faisal, Khan, Sara, Hasan, Zahra, Cheema, Ahmed, Hakim, Asif, Ali, Shehreen Inayat
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36963102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001746
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author Khan, Unab Inayat
Mahmood, Syed Faisal
Khan, Sara
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description Anticipating staff shortage during the Omicron variant surge, we modified the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contingency guidelines at a healthcare system in Pakistan. Infected staff had a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test after 5–7 days of isolation, to decide a safe return-to-work. This led to signifcant cost savings without compromising patient/staff safety.
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spelling pubmed-100325262023-03-23 Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study Khan, Unab Inayat Mahmood, Syed Faisal Khan, Sara Hasan, Zahra Cheema, Ahmed Hakim, Asif Ali, Shehreen Inayat PLOS Glob Public Health Research Article Anticipating staff shortage during the Omicron variant surge, we modified the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contingency guidelines at a healthcare system in Pakistan. Infected staff had a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test after 5–7 days of isolation, to decide a safe return-to-work. This led to signifcant cost savings without compromising patient/staff safety. Public Library of Science 2023-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10032526/ /pubmed/36963102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001746 Text en © 2023 Khan et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khan, Unab Inayat
Mahmood, Syed Faisal
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Ali, Shehreen Inayat
Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title_full Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title_short Using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a healthcare system in Pakistan: A retrospective cross-sectional study
title_sort using rapid antigen testing for early, safe return-to-work for healthcare personnel after sars-cov-2 infection in a healthcare system in pakistan: a retrospective cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36963102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001746
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