Comparison of Unsupervised Home Self-collected Midnasal Swabs With Clinician-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- 22 July 2020
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Network Open
- Vol. 3 (7), e2016382
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16382
Abstract
Increased diagnostics are urgently needed to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Home self-collected swabs may increase testing access while minimizing exposure risk to health care workers and depletion of personal protective equipment, allowing for early community detection of COVID-19. A comparison of unsupervised home self-collected swabs with clinician-collected nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 diagnosis has not been well described.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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