Feasibility of pharmacy-based research opportunity to enhance community testing and surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 89% of the US population lives within five miles of a community pharmacy, which provides a network of geographically distributed recruitment nodes for testing and surveillance of infection and disease.

Objectives

Establish feasibility of Pharmacy-based Research Opportunities To Enhance Community Testing and Surveillance in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a community pharmacy setting with University of Kentucky serving as the coordinating center and research hub for sample analysis.

Methods

Two community pharmacies in Kentucky served as community-based recruitment sites to assess SARS-CoV-2 exposure through longitudinal (5 visits over 56 days) collection of nasal swabs and blood samples from subjects.

Results

Fifty subjects were r

SUBMITTER: Venditto VJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11682190 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature