{"id":6176,"date":"2020-04-21T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:18:39","slug":"false-negative-results-of-initial-rt-pcr-assays-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/false-negative-results-of-initial-rt-pcr-assays-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"False-Negative Results of Initial RT-PCR Assays for COVID-19: A Systematic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arevalo-Rodriguez et al reviewed available evidence on false-negative RT-PRC results when testing for SARS-CoV-2 using 5 studies enrolling 957 patients in total.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While cautious in interpretation due to potential bias and heterogeneity of findings, the authors report the pooled false-negative proportion of 0.085 (95% CI= 0.034-0.196) and reinforce the need for repeated testing in patients with suspicion of SARS-CoV-2 infection.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arevalo-Rodriguez et al. (April 21, 2020). False-Negative Results of Initial RT-PCR Assays for COVID-19: A Systematic Review. Pre-print downloaded Apr 21 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20066787\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20066787<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arevalo-Rodriguez et al reviewed available evidence on false-negative RT-PRC results when testing for SARS-CoV-2 using 5 studies enrolling 957 patients in total.\u00a0 While cautious in interpretation due to potential bias and heterogeneity of findings, the authors report the pooled false-negative proportion of 0.085 (95% CI= 0.034-0.196) and reinforce the need for repeated testing in patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/false-negative-results-of-initial-rt-pcr-assays-for-covid-19-a-systematic-review-2\/\">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-6176","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\/6176","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=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}