A Quality Improvement Project to Minimize COVID-19 Infections in Patients Receiving Haemodialysis and the Role of Routine Surveillance Using Nose and Throat Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR and Serum Antibody Testing

BACKGROUND: Patients receiving in-centre haemodialysis (ICHD) are highly vulnerable to COVID-19. OBJECTIVE: We created a quality improvement (QI) project aimed to eliminate outbreaks of COVID-19 in haemodialysis units and evaluated the utility of surveillance rRT-PCR test and SARS-CoV-2 serum antibo...

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Autores principales: Poulikakos, Dimitrios, Chinnadurai, Rajkumar, Mcgee, Yvonne, Gray, Simon, Clough, Toni, Clarke, Nicola, Murphy, Tracey, Wickens, Olivia, Mitchell, Carol, Darby, Denise, Paul, Joel, Chadwick, Paul, Sethi, Su, Sinha, Smeeta, Kalra, Philip A., Donne, Rosie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2022
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Clinical Practice: Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8805076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34937042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000520654

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