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Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a glo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9609557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36298788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14102233 |
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author | Bird, Paul William Taylor, Georgina Cafferata, Jessica Gardener, Judi McMurray, Claire L. Fletcher, Oliver Toovey, Oliver T. R. Holmes, Christopher W. Tang, Julian W. |
author_facet | Bird, Paul William Taylor, Georgina Cafferata, Jessica Gardener, Judi McMurray, Claire L. Fletcher, Oliver Toovey, Oliver T. R. Holmes, Christopher W. Tang, Julian W. |
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description | UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a global pandemic; NHS laboratories responded rapidly to upscale their testing capabilities. To date, there is little information on the impact of increased SARS-CoV-2 screening on non-SARS-CoV-2 testing within NHS laboratories. This report details the virology test requests received by the Leicester-based NHS Virology laboratory from January 2018 to May 2022. Data show that in spite of a dramatic increase in screening, along with multiple logistic and staffing issues, the Leicester Virology Department was mostly able to maintain the same level of service for non-respiratory virus testing while meeting the new increase in SARS-CoV-2 testing. |
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spelling | pubmed-96095572022-10-28 Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Bird, Paul William Taylor, Georgina Cafferata, Jessica Gardener, Judi McMurray, Claire L. Fletcher, Oliver Toovey, Oliver T. R. Holmes, Christopher W. Tang, Julian W. Viruses Brief Report UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Virology Departments provide a repertoire of tests on clinical samples to detect the presence of viral genomic material or host immune responses to viral infection. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged which quickly developed into a global pandemic; NHS laboratories responded rapidly to upscale their testing capabilities. To date, there is little information on the impact of increased SARS-CoV-2 screening on non-SARS-CoV-2 testing within NHS laboratories. This report details the virology test requests received by the Leicester-based NHS Virology laboratory from January 2018 to May 2022. Data show that in spite of a dramatic increase in screening, along with multiple logistic and staffing issues, the Leicester Virology Department was mostly able to maintain the same level of service for non-respiratory virus testing while meeting the new increase in SARS-CoV-2 testing. MDPI 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9609557/ /pubmed/36298788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14102233 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Bird, Paul William Taylor, Georgina Cafferata, Jessica Gardener, Judi McMurray, Claire L. Fletcher, Oliver Toovey, Oliver T. R. Holmes, Christopher W. Tang, Julian W. Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title | Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title_full | Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title_short | Performing under Pressure: Insights into the Diagnostic Testing Burden at a UK National Health Service Clinical Virology Laboratory during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic |
title_sort | performing under pressure: insights into the diagnostic testing burden at a uk national health service clinical virology laboratory during the sars-cov-2 pandemic |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9609557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36298788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14102233 |
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