{"id":8549,"date":"2020-07-29T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:57:14","slug":"understanding-the-patterns-of-repeated-testing-for-covid-19-association-with-patient-characteristics-and-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/understanding-the-patterns-of-repeated-testing-for-covid-19-association-with-patient-characteristics-and-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Patterns of Repeated Testing for COVID-19 Association with Patient Characteristics and Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 15,920 individuals presenting to Michigan Medicine for COVID-19 testing between March 10 and June 4, 2020, most (85%) only tested once and never test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0positive (9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%). A subse<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% underwent multiple test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(average 2.6 tests per person).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Non-Hispanic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">B<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lack<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0were more likely to have additional testing than non-Hispanic white<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.21).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Women<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were less likely\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than men\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to have additional testing (OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.86).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">167 patients with at least one positive result, hospitalization (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7.44) and ICU-level care (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6.97) were significantly associated with repeated testing.\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\">Salerno et al. (July 29, 2020). Understanding the Patterns of Repeated Testing for COVID-19 Association with Patient Characteristics and Outcomes. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded July 29 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.26.20162453\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.26.20162453<\/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>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Among 15,920 individuals presenting to Michigan Medicine for COVID-19 testing between March 10 and June 4, 2020, most (85%) only tested once and never tested\u00a0positive (93%). A subset of\u00a015% underwent multiple tests\u00a0(average 2.6 tests per person).\u00a0Non-Hispanic\u00a0Black\u00a0people\u00a0were more likely to have additional testing than non-Hispanic white\u00a0people\u00a0(OR=1.21).\u00a0Women\u00a0were less likely\u00a0than men\u00a0to have additional testing (OR=0.86).\u00a0Among 1,167&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/understanding-the-patterns-of-repeated-testing-for-covid-19-association-with-patient-characteristics-and-outcomes\/\">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-8549","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\/8549","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=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}