{"id":1817,"date":"2020-10-27T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T19:18:01","slug":"covid-19-serial-testing-among-hospitalized-patients-in-a-midwest-tertiary-medical-center-july-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/27\/covid-19-serial-testing-among-hospitalized-patients-in-a-midwest-tertiary-medical-center-july-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Serial Testing among Hospitalized Patients in a Midwest Tertiary Medical Center, July\u2013September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serial COVID-19 testing program in an Iowa hospital found that out of 1,950 patients that had at least one repeat test during their admission, 19 (1%) converted from negative to positive. While the serial testing program allowed the hospital to detect seven infectious patients sooner and were able to prevent further in-hospital exposure events, the authors note that serial testing was both time and resource intensive.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Kobayashi et al. (Oct 26, 2020). COVID-19 Serial Testing among Hospitalized Patients in a Midwest Tertiary Medical Center, July\u2013September 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1630\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1630<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serial COVID-19 testing program in an Iowa hospital found that out of 1,950 patients that had at least one repeat test during their admission, 19 (1%) converted from negative to positive. While the serial testing program allowed the hospital to detect seven infectious patients sooner and were able to prevent further in-hospital exposure events,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/27\/covid-19-serial-testing-among-hospitalized-patients-in-a-midwest-tertiary-medical-center-july-september-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-1817","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\/1817","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}