Evaluating pooled testing for asymptomatic screening of healthcare workers in hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is evidence that during the COVID pandemic, a number of patient and HCW infections were nosocomial. Various measures were put in place to try to reduce these infections including developing asymptomatic PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing schemes for healthcare workers. Regularly testing all healthcare workers requires many tests while reducing this number by only testing some healthcare workers can result in undetected cases. An efficient way to test as many individuals as possible with a limited testing capacity is to consider pooling multiple samples to be analysed with a single test (known as pooled testing).

Methods

Two different pooled testing schemes for the asymptomatic testing are evaluated using an individual-based model representing the transm

SUBMITTER: Heath B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature