{"id":1499,"date":"2020-10-12T15:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:31:43","slug":"clinical-impact-of-molecular-point-of-care-testing-for-suspected-covid-19-in-hospital-cov-19poc-a-prospective-interventional-non-randomised-controlled-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/clinical-impact-of-molecular-point-of-care-testing-for-suspected-covid-19-in-hospital-cov-19poc-a-prospective-interventional-non-randomised-controlled-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Impact of Molecular Point-of-Care Testing for Suspected COVID-19 in Hospital (COV-19POC): A Prospective, Interventional, Non-Randomised, Controlled Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 was associated with large reductions in time to results compared with centralized laboratory PCR testing in a prospective, interventional, non-randomized study of molecular point-of-care testing in the UK. 39% of adult patients in the point-of-care testing group and 28% in the control group tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection using nose and throat swabs. A Cox proportional hazards regression model controlling for age, sex, time of presentation, and severity of illness showed that time to results was significantly shorter in the point-of-care testing group than in the control group. The authors suggest that this decreased time to results could improve infection control measures and patient flow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brendish et al. (Oct 8, 2020). Clinical Impact of Molecular Point-of-Care Testing for Suspected COVID-19 in Hospital (COV-19POC): A Prospective, Interventional, Non-Randomised, Controlled Study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30454-9\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2213-2600(20)30454-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point-of-care testing for SARS-CoV-2 was associated with large reductions in time to results compared with centralized laboratory PCR testing in a prospective, interventional, non-randomized study of molecular point-of-care testing in the UK. 39% of adult patients in the point-of-care testing group and 28% in the control group tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection using nose and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/clinical-impact-of-molecular-point-of-care-testing-for-suspected-covid-19-in-hospital-cov-19poc-a-prospective-interventional-non-randomised-controlled-study\/\">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":[25,54,75,76],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-health-care-setting","tag-report","tag-summarize","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","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=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}