{"id":2524,"date":"2020-12-03T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:52:44","slug":"simple-questionnaires-to-improve-pooling-strategies-for-sars-cov-2-laboratory-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/simple-questionnaires-to-improve-pooling-strategies-for-sars-cov-2-laboratory-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Questionnaires to Improve Pooling Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 Laboratory Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Questionnaire-based risk stratification could further enhance the efficiency of pooling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 lab testing. Schneitler et al. pooled samples using responses to a short questionnaire about clinical symptoms, travel history, and contact with people with confirmed COVID-19. In a sample (n=25,978) with overall SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 0.9%, randomly pooled samples had higher pool positivity and individual SARS-CoV-2 prevalence than questionnaire-based pooled samples (14.6% vs 1.2% and 3.4% vs 0.1%, respectively). An individual participant result needed an average of 0.27 PCR tests with random pooling compared to 0.09 tests with questionnaire-based pooling, translating to a lab capacity increase of 73% for random pooling and 91% for questionnaire-based pooling, compared to single PCR testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schneitler et al. (Nov 18, 2020). Simple Questionnaires to Improve Pooling Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 Laboratory Testing. Annals of Global Health. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/aogh.3126\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5334\/aogh.3126<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questionnaire-based risk stratification could further enhance the efficiency of pooling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 lab testing. Schneitler et al. pooled samples using responses to a short questionnaire about clinical symptoms, travel history, and contact with people with confirmed COVID-19. In a sample (n=25,978) with overall SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 0.9%, randomly pooled samples had higher pool positivity&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/simple-questionnaires-to-improve-pooling-strategies-for-sars-cov-2-laboratory-testing\/\">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-2524","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\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}