{"id":2808,"date":"2020-12-17T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:27:08","slug":"the-accuracy-of-healthcare-worker-versus-self-collected-2-in-1-oropharyngeal-and-bilateral-mid-turbinate-opmt-swabs-and-saliva-samples-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/the-accuracy-of-healthcare-worker-versus-self-collected-2-in-1-oropharyngeal-and-bilateral-mid-turbinate-opmt-swabs-and-saliva-samples-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accuracy of Healthcare Worker versus Self Collected (2-in-1) Oropharyngeal and Bilateral Mid-Turbinate (OPMT) Swabs and Saliva Samples for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A diagnostic accuracy study (n=401 patients with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis) found that self-collected oropharynx and mid-turbinate (OMPT) and saliva samples had lower detection rates (75.1% and 74.3%, respectively) than healthcare worker (HCW)-collected OPMT swabs (82.8%). However, the combination of self-collected OMPT and saliva samples performed similarly (86.5% detection rate). The sensitivity of self-collected samples increased at lower cycle threshold (Ct) values and performed almost at the same level as HCW-collected samples at Ct &lt; 25, suggesting they could be useful tools in high-risk settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tan et al. (Dec 16, 2020). The Accuracy of Healthcare Worker versus Self Collected (2-in-1) Oropharyngeal and Bilateral Mid-Turbinate (OPMT) Swabs and Saliva Samples for SARS-CoV-2. PLOS ONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0244417\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0244417<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diagnostic accuracy study (n=401 patients with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis) found that self-collected oropharynx and mid-turbinate (OMPT) and saliva samples had lower detection rates (75.1% and 74.3%, respectively) than healthcare worker (HCW)-collected OPMT swabs (82.8%). However, the combination of self-collected OMPT and saliva samples performed similarly (86.5% detection rate). The sensitivity of self-collected samples increased&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/the-accuracy-of-healthcare-worker-versus-self-collected-2-in-1-oropharyngeal-and-bilateral-mid-turbinate-opmt-swabs-and-saliva-samples-for-sars-cov-2\/\">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-2808","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\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}