Clinical utility of a rapid ‘on-demand’ laboratory-based SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing service in an acute hospital setting admitting COVID-19 patients

Clinical utility of a rapid ‘on-demand’ laboratory-based SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing service in an acute hospital setting admitting COVID-19 patients

Background: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hospital clinical teams have realised that there is a need for a rapid, accurate testing facility that will allow them to move patients quickly into isolation rooms or specific COVID-19 cohort wards as soon as possible after admission. Met...

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Main Authors: Fiona Yau, Rosalina Ferreira, Rima Kamali, Paul W. Bird, Richard Halliwell, Hemu Patel, Daniela C. Nicoara, Gerrit Woltmann, Julian W. Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Clinical Infection in Practice
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Rapid testing
Triage
Patient flow
Nosocomial transmission
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590170221000236

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