Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings

Retrospective contact tracing, enabled by the use of automated visitor-management systems and digital contact tracing, together with rapid antigen detection (RAD) for SARS-CoV-2 among visitors staying ≥ 30 minutes, identified COVID-19 cases in < 0.01% (6/72 605) of hospital visitors to a large ho...

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Autores principales:	Liang En Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, Indumathi Venkatachalam, Limin Wijaya
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Elsevier 2022
Materias:	SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 antigen test point-of-care testing outbreak visitors Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/a428607084b74953b5012801997a667b
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a428607084b74953b5012801997a667b2021-11-30T04:14:31ZUtilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings1201-971210.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.011https://doaj.org/article/a428607084b74953b5012801997a667b2022-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221008596https://doaj.org/toc/1201-9712Retrospective contact tracing, enabled by the use of automated visitor-management systems and digital contact tracing, together with rapid antigen detection (RAD) for SARS-CoV-2 among visitors staying ≥ 30 minutes, identified COVID-19 cases in < 0.01% (6/72 605) of hospital visitors to a large hospital campus over an 8-week study period. The potential for nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from hospital visitors was thus very low, and could be further mitigated by universal mask-wearing among staff and visitors.Liang En WeeEdwin Philip ConceicaoJean Xiang-Ying SimIndumathi VenkatachalamLimin WijayaElsevierarticleSARS-CoV-2COVID-19antigen testpoint-of-care testingoutbreakvisitorsInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216ENInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 114, Iss , Pp 132-134 (2022)
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topic	SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 antigen test point-of-care testing outbreak visitors Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
spellingShingle	SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 antigen test point-of-care testing outbreak visitors Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Liang En Wee Edwin Philip Conceicao Jean Xiang-Ying Sim Indumathi Venkatachalam Limin Wijaya Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
description	Retrospective contact tracing, enabled by the use of automated visitor-management systems and digital contact tracing, together with rapid antigen detection (RAD) for SARS-CoV-2 among visitors staying ≥ 30 minutes, identified COVID-19 cases in < 0.01% (6/72 605) of hospital visitors to a large hospital campus over an 8-week study period. The potential for nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from hospital visitors was thus very low, and could be further mitigated by universal mask-wearing among staff and visitors.
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author	Liang En Wee Edwin Philip Conceicao Jean Xiang-Ying Sim Indumathi Venkatachalam Limin Wijaya
author_facet	Liang En Wee Edwin Philip Conceicao Jean Xiang-Ying Sim Indumathi Venkatachalam Limin Wijaya
author_sort	Liang En Wee
title	Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
title_short	Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
title_full	Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
title_fullStr	Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
title_full_unstemmed	Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
title_sort	utilisation of sars-cov-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2022
url	https://doaj.org/article/a428607084b74953b5012801997a667b
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Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings

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