{"id":1116,"date":"2020-09-24T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:17:22","slug":"utility-of-repeat-nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-and-refinement-of-diagnostic-stewardship-strategies-at-a-tertiary-care-academic-center-in-a-low-prevalence-area-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/24\/utility-of-repeat-nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-and-refinement-of-diagnostic-stewardship-strategies-at-a-tertiary-care-academic-center-in-a-low-prevalence-area-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility of Repeat Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Testing and Refinement of Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies at a Tertiary Care Academic Center in a Low-Prevalence Area of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among 660 patients with at least 2 nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests collected on different days in a low prevalence area of Wisconsin, only 6 (0.9%) negative-to-positive conversions were detected. All 6 were outpatient persons under investigation (PUI) for suspected COVID-19. Overall, 29.6% of repeat PUI testing and 31.4% of repeat asymptomatic screens should not have been performed based on institutional guidance, with the most common reason being provider judgement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lepak et al. (Aug 27, 2020). Utility of Repeat Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Testing and Refinement of Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies at a Tertiary Care Academic Center in a Low-Prevalence Area of the United States. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofaa388\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofaa388<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 660 patients with at least 2 nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests collected on different days in a low prevalence area of Wisconsin, only 6 (0.9%) negative-to-positive conversions were detected. All 6 were outpatient persons under investigation (PUI) for suspected COVID-19. Overall, 29.6% of repeat PUI testing and 31.4% of repeat asymptomatic screens should not have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/24\/utility-of-repeat-nasopharyngeal-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-and-refinement-of-diagnostic-stewardship-strategies-at-a-tertiary-care-academic-center-in-a-low-prevalence-area-of-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}