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Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 shut down trial courts across the country, prolonging case resolution of charged, detained, and incarcerated people. We report on the implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Trial Courts in Massachusetts (MA), focusing on the outcomes of adoption and acceptability. METHODS:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37036544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00220-1 |
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author | Ngassa, Yvane Smyth, Emma Pickard, Bridget Maner, Morgan Rubinstein, Lauren Brinkley Wurcel, Alysse |
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description | BACKGROUND: COVID-19 shut down trial courts across the country, prolonging case resolution of charged, detained, and incarcerated people. We report on the implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Trial Courts in Massachusetts (MA), focusing on the outcomes of adoption and acceptability. METHODS: Guided by the Expert Recommendations in Implementing Change (ERIC) framework, we chose six strategies to guide implementation. After assembling a group of stakeholders, including representatives of the Trial Court, Department of Public Health (DPH) and vendors providing COVID-19 testing, we implemented rapid COVID-19 testing at Trial Court locations in December 2021. We collected data on (1) adoption of COVID-19 testing, (2) number of stakeholders who attended meetings, (3) number of tests performed at Trial Court sites, and (4) acceptability of COVID-19 testing using a QR-code anonymous survey. RESULTS: There was a high percentage of attendance at stakeholder meetings (> 70% at each meeting). 243 COVID-19 tests were conducted on eight occasions at four Trial Court sites between December 2021 and February 2022. Participants who responded to the QR-code survey reflected favorably on COVID-19 testing at MA Trial Court sites. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts Trial Court sites was possible through stakeholder engagement. Several cases of COVID-19 were identified prior to entry into the Trial Court. Funding for rapid COVID-19 testing should be provided to help keep trial courts open as the pandemic continues to evolve. |
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spelling | pubmed-100846512023-04-11 Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts Ngassa, Yvane Smyth, Emma Pickard, Bridget Maner, Morgan Rubinstein, Lauren Brinkley Wurcel, Alysse Health Justice Short Report BACKGROUND: COVID-19 shut down trial courts across the country, prolonging case resolution of charged, detained, and incarcerated people. We report on the implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Trial Courts in Massachusetts (MA), focusing on the outcomes of adoption and acceptability. METHODS: Guided by the Expert Recommendations in Implementing Change (ERIC) framework, we chose six strategies to guide implementation. After assembling a group of stakeholders, including representatives of the Trial Court, Department of Public Health (DPH) and vendors providing COVID-19 testing, we implemented rapid COVID-19 testing at Trial Court locations in December 2021. We collected data on (1) adoption of COVID-19 testing, (2) number of stakeholders who attended meetings, (3) number of tests performed at Trial Court sites, and (4) acceptability of COVID-19 testing using a QR-code anonymous survey. RESULTS: There was a high percentage of attendance at stakeholder meetings (> 70% at each meeting). 243 COVID-19 tests were conducted on eight occasions at four Trial Court sites between December 2021 and February 2022. Participants who responded to the QR-code survey reflected favorably on COVID-19 testing at MA Trial Court sites. CONCLUSION: COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts Trial Court sites was possible through stakeholder engagement. Several cases of COVID-19 were identified prior to entry into the Trial Court. Funding for rapid COVID-19 testing should be provided to help keep trial courts open as the pandemic continues to evolve. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10084651/ /pubmed/37036544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00220-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Ngassa, Yvane Smyth, Emma Pickard, Bridget Maner, Morgan Rubinstein, Lauren Brinkley Wurcel, Alysse Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title | Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title_full | Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title_fullStr | Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title_full_unstemmed | Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title_short | Implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing at Massachusetts trial courts |
title_sort | implementation of rapid covid-19 testing at massachusetts trial courts |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37036544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00220-1 |
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