{"id":9292,"date":"2021-04-19T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:05:45","slug":"clinical-characteristics-of-false-negative-sars-cov-2-test-results-amongst-hospitalized-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/19\/clinical-characteristics-of-false-negative-sars-cov-2-test-results-amongst-hospitalized-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Characteristics of False Negative SARS-CoV-2 Test Results Amongst Hospitalized Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">False negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results, defined as an initial negative test followed by a positive test within seven days, were associated with l<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">oss of taste or smell (aOR = 8.4), having a SARS-CoV-2-positive contact (aOR = 10.5), and having an elevated lactate dehydrogenase level (aOR = 3.3) c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ompared to true negative results<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0Among 1,009 SARS-CoV-2 test results included in the retrospective cohort study conducted between March 14<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and April 30 2020, 4.0% were false negatives. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patients were included in the analysis if they had an initial negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test with at least one additional test obtained within the next seven days. Testing protocol at the study site mandated a follow-up test for all patients admitted with influenza-like illness in whom no alternative diagnosis was identified within 48 hours of hospital admission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MacKenzie et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Clinical Characteristics of False Negative SARS-CoV-2 Test Results Amongst Hospitalized Patients. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.146\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.146<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR results, defined as an initial negative test followed by a positive test within seven days, were associated with loss of taste or smell (aOR = 8.4), having a SARS-CoV-2-positive contact (aOR = 10.5), and having an elevated lactate dehydrogenase level (aOR = 3.3) compared to true negative results.\u00a0Among 1,009 SARS-CoV-2 test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/19\/clinical-characteristics-of-false-negative-sars-cov-2-test-results-amongst-hospitalized-patients\/\">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":[34,27],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-testing","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","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=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}