Rostered Routine Testing: A Necessary Evil?

We report our institution’s experience of detecting a staff member who was infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 while he was asymptomatic, as part of a rostered routine testing program, and how the institution was able to undertake measures to curb the spread, hence reducing...

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Autores principales: Tan, Seow Yen, How, Choon How, Poon, Beng Hoong, Tan, Thean Yen, Siau, Chuin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8689919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35024370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab549
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author Tan, Seow Yen
How, Choon How
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description We report our institution’s experience of detecting a staff member who was infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 while he was asymptomatic, as part of a rostered routine testing program, and how the institution was able to undertake measures to curb the spread, hence reducing the impact on the daily operations of our institution.
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spelling pubmed-86899192022-01-05 Rostered Routine Testing: A Necessary Evil? Tan, Seow Yen How, Choon How Poon, Beng Hoong Tan, Thean Yen Siau, Chuin Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We report our institution’s experience of detecting a staff member who was infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 while he was asymptomatic, as part of a rostered routine testing program, and how the institution was able to undertake measures to curb the spread, hence reducing the impact on the daily operations of our institution. Oxford University Press 2021-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8689919/ /pubmed/35024370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab549 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_full Rostered Routine Testing: A Necessary Evil?
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title_short Rostered Routine Testing: A Necessary Evil?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35024370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab549
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