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Sense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?

The UK government has put lateral flow antigen tests (LFATs) at the forefront of its strategy to scale-up testing in the coronavirus pandemic. However, evidence from a pilot trial using an LFAT to identify asymptomatic infections in the community suggested that the test missed over half of the posit...

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Autores principales: Pugh, Jonathan, Wilkinson, Dominic, Savulescu, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33820853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2021-107234

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