Screening for COVID-19: Patient factors predicting positive PCR test

To inform the efficient allocation of testing resources, we evaluated the characteristics of those tested for COVID-19 to determine predictors of a positive test. Recent travel and exposure to a confirmed case were both highly predictive of positive testing. Symptom-based screening strategies alone...

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Autores principales: Challener, Douglas W., Challener, Gregory J., Gow-Lee, Vanessa J., Fida, Madiha, Shah, Aditya S., O’Horo, John C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Research Brief
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32423519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.249
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description To inform the efficient allocation of testing resources, we evaluated the characteristics of those tested for COVID-19 to determine predictors of a positive test. Recent travel and exposure to a confirmed case were both highly predictive of positive testing. Symptom-based screening strategies alone may be inadequate to control the ongoing pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73034732020-06-22 Screening for COVID-19: Patient factors predicting positive PCR test Challener, Douglas W. Challener, Gregory J. Gow-Lee, Vanessa J. Fida, Madiha Shah, Aditya S. O’Horo, John C. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Research Brief To inform the efficient allocation of testing resources, we evaluated the characteristics of those tested for COVID-19 to determine predictors of a positive test. Recent travel and exposure to a confirmed case were both highly predictive of positive testing. Symptom-based screening strategies alone may be inadequate to control the ongoing pandemic. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7303473/ /pubmed/32423519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.249 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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