{"id":8687,"date":"2020-08-03T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:47:43","slug":"utility-of-repeat-testing-for-covid-19-lab-stewardship-when-the-stakes-are-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/utility-of-repeat-testing-for-covid-19-lab-stewardship-when-the-stakes-are-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Utility of Repeat Testing for COVID-19: Lab Stewardship When the Stakes Are High"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There may be little benefit of repeat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">within 7 days after a negative test\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in patients who present early in their illness\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in a low-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prevalence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">setting<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 275 patients with initially negative (94%) or inconclusive (6%) nasopharyngeal PCR tests in Omaha, Nebraska who were tested serially between March-April 2020, only 1 (1\/275) was positive on the 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and only 1 (1\/40) was positive on a 3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0test.<\/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;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Rearigh<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 3, 2020). Utility of Repeat Testing for COVID-19: Lab Stewardship When the Stakes Are High. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.397\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.397<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be little benefit of repeat\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 PCR\u00a0testing\u00a0within 7 days after a negative test\u00a0in patients who present early in their illness\u00a0in a low-prevalence\u00a0setting.\u00a0Among 275 patients with initially negative (94%) or inconclusive (6%) nasopharyngeal PCR tests in Omaha, Nebraska who were tested serially between March-April 2020, only 1 (1\/275) was positive on the 2nd\u00a0test,\u00a0and only 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/03\/utility-of-repeat-testing-for-covid-19-lab-stewardship-when-the-stakes-are-high\/\">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-8687","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\/8687","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=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}