{"id":8983,"date":"2020-08-11T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:07:21","slug":"re-testing-for-sars-cov-2-patterns-of-testing-from-a-large-u-s-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/re-testing-for-sars-cov-2-patterns-of-testing-from-a-large-u-s-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Patterns of Testing from a Large U.S. Healthcare System"},"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\">Kennedy et al. performed a retrospective chart review of all in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients and out<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients age \u226518 years old with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at least 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ound<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that that re-testing for SARS-CoV-2 was uncommon and often resulted in multiple negative tests.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The majority of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0individuals were re-tested due to pre-procedural asymptomatic screening or clinical suspicion for COVID-19 disease.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kennedy et al. (Aug 10, 2020). Re-Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Patterns of Testing from a Large U.S. Healthcare System. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.413\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.413<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy et al. performed a retrospective chart review of all in&#8211;patients and out&#8211;patients age \u226518 years old with\u00a0at least 2\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests\u00a0and\u00a0found\u00a0that that re-testing for SARS-CoV-2 was uncommon and often resulted in multiple negative tests.\u00a0The majority of\u00a0individuals were re-tested due to pre-procedural asymptomatic screening or clinical suspicion for COVID-19 disease.\u00a0\u00a0 Kennedy et al. (Aug 10,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/re-testing-for-sars-cov-2-patterns-of-testing-from-a-large-u-s-healthcare-system\/\">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-8983","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\/8983","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=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}