{"id":6935,"date":"2020-05-19T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:04:23","slug":"a-novel-cohorting-and-isolation-strategy-for-suspected-covid-19-cases-during-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/19\/a-novel-cohorting-and-isolation-strategy-for-suspected-covid-19-cases-during-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel Cohorting and Isolation Strategy for Suspected COVID-19 Cases during a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Patterson et al. evaluated a clinical triaging tool with four categories based on likelihood of having COVID-19 and risk of having a poor health outcome. Individuals with lowest likelihood of having COVID-19 and highest risk of having a poor outcome were prioritized for single-occupancy rooms while the others groups were \u201ccohorted\u201d by putting them in reduced occupancy multi-bedded bays on wards designated for suspected COVID-19 patients. Among 93 patients suspected of having COVID-19, 79 (85%) received a COVID-19 diagnosis at some point during admission. Of the 14 without COVID-19, 10 had been placed in the low-likelihood\/high-risk category and were admitted to single-occupancy rooms. 28 (30%) of the suspected COVID-19 patients were evaluated to be low risk and thus eligible for cohorting. No symptomatic hospital acquired infections were detected in the cohorted patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Patterson et al. (May18,2020). A Novel Cohorting and Isolation Strategy for Suspected COVID-19 Cases during a Pandemic. Pre-print downloaded May 19 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.14.20091843\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.14.20091843<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterson et al. evaluated a clinical triaging tool with four categories based on likelihood of having COVID-19 and risk of having a poor health outcome. Individuals with lowest likelihood of having COVID-19 and highest risk of having a poor outcome were prioritized for single-occupancy rooms while the others groups were \u201ccohorted\u201d by putting them in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/19\/a-novel-cohorting-and-isolation-strategy-for-suspected-covid-19-cases-during-a-pandemic\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}