{"id":5682,"date":"2020-04-06T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:45:15","slug":"patient-collected-tongue-nasal-and-mid-turbinate-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-yield-equivalent-sensitivity-to-health-care-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/patient-collected-tongue-nasal-and-mid-turbinate-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-yield-equivalent-sensitivity-to-health-care-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient-collected tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs for SARS-CoV-2 yield equivalent sensitivity to health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swabs."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study explored the equivalency of patient-collected tongue, nasal and mid-turbinate samples to healthcare collected nasopharyngeal samples for detecting SARS-CoV-2. The sensitivity of patient collected samples was calculated to be above 90% and the sampling was feasible in ambulatory practice, even in cohorts of nearly 500 patients.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient-collected sampling has several advantages over nasopharyngeal sampling: it reduces PPE use, is more comfortable to the patient, reduces the risk of exposure of the health workforce, and can improve clinical efficiency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tu et al. (Apr 6, 2020). Patient-collected tongue, nasal, and mid-turbinate swabs for SARS-CoV-2 yield equivalent sensitivity to health care worker collected nasopharyngeal swabs. Pre-print downloaded Apr 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.01.20050005\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.01.20050005<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study explored the equivalency of patient-collected tongue, nasal and mid-turbinate samples to healthcare collected nasopharyngeal samples for detecting SARS-CoV-2. The sensitivity of patient collected samples was calculated to be above 90% and the sampling was feasible in ambulatory practice, even in cohorts of nearly 500 patients.\u00a0\u00a0 Patient-collected sampling has several advantages over nasopharyngeal sampling:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/patient-collected-tongue-nasal-and-mid-turbinate-swabs-for-sars-cov-2-yield-equivalent-sensitivity-to-health-care-worker-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}