Utility of repeat testing for COVID-19: Laboratory stewardship when the stakes are high

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to circulate, testing strategies are of the utmost importance. Given national shortages of testing supplies, personal protective equipment, and other hospital resources, diagnostic stewardship is necessary to aid in resource management. We report...

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Autores principales: Rearigh, Lindsey M., Hewlett, Angela L., Fey, Paul D., Broadhurst, M. Jana, Brett-Major, David M., Rupp, Mark E., Van Schooneveld, Trevor C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7511838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32741393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.397
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author Rearigh, Lindsey M.
Hewlett, Angela L.
Fey, Paul D.
Broadhurst, M. Jana
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description As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to circulate, testing strategies are of the utmost importance. Given national shortages of testing supplies, personal protective equipment, and other hospital resources, diagnostic stewardship is necessary to aid in resource management. We report the low utility of serial testing in a low-prevalence setting.
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spelling pubmed-75118382020-09-24 Utility of repeat testing for COVID-19: Laboratory stewardship when the stakes are high Rearigh, Lindsey M. Hewlett, Angela L. Fey, Paul D. Broadhurst, M. Jana Brett-Major, David M. Rupp, Mark E. Van Schooneveld, Trevor C. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to circulate, testing strategies are of the utmost importance. Given national shortages of testing supplies, personal protective equipment, and other hospital resources, diagnostic stewardship is necessary to aid in resource management. We report the low utility of serial testing in a low-prevalence setting. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7511838/ /pubmed/32741393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.397 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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Utility of repeat testing for COVID-19: Laboratory stewardship when the stakes are high
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