{"id":8437,"date":"2020-07-23T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:39:09","slug":"comparison-of-unsupervised-home-self-collected-midnasal-swabs-with-clinician-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/comparison-of-unsupervised-home-self-collected-midnasal-swabs-with-clinician-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Unsupervised Home Self-Collected\u00a0Midnasal\u00a0Swabs\u00a0With\u00a0Clinician-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Compared to clinician-collected swabs,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ome-based self-collec<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ted swabs<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had a sensitivity of 80.0% (95%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a063<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">91%) and a specificity of 97.9% (95%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a094<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">99.5%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. These results were based on a cohort of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">185 symptomatic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">people who presented\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at drive-through clinics in Washington State\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">underwent both\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unsupervised home self-collected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">swab<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for diagnosis of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by RT-PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">McCulloch et al. (July 22, 2020). Comparison of Unsupervised Home Self-Collected\u00a0Midnasal\u00a0Swabs\u00a0With\u00a0Clinician-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16382\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16382<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to clinician-collected swabs,\u00a0home-based self-collected swabs\u00a0had a sensitivity of 80.0% (95%\u00a0CI:\u00a063&#8211;91%) and a specificity of 97.9% (95%\u00a0CI:\u00a094&#8211;99.5%). These results were based on a cohort of\u00a0185 symptomatic\u00a0people who presented\u00a0at drive-through clinics in Washington State\u00a0who\u00a0underwent both\u00a0an\u00a0unsupervised home self-collected\u00a0swab\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for diagnosis of\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0infection\u00a0by RT-PCR.\u00a0\u00a0 McCulloch et al. (July 22, 2020). Comparison of Unsupervised Home Self-Collected\u00a0Midnasal\u00a0Swabs\u00a0With\u00a0Clinician-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/comparison-of-unsupervised-home-self-collected-midnasal-swabs-with-clinician-collected-nasopharyngeal-swabs-for-detection-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">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-8437","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\/8437","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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}