Universal preprocedural SARS-CoV-2 testing protocol within a large healthcare system
- 9 August 2021
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 108 (10), e326-e327
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab216
Abstract
This research letter details the safety of a universal asymptomatic preprocedural SARS-CoV-2 testing protocol implemented within a large, integrated healthcare system. Among over 145 000 tests administered, fewer than 1 in 1000 patients had subsequent positive tests within 10days of an initial negative SARS-CoV-2 test. Despite the infrequency of positive tests after negative screening tests, patient-to-provider transmission was documented in five instances.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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