Rapid point-of-care testing for COVID-19: quality of supportive information for lateral flow serology assays.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is a lack of evidence addressing several important human factors questions pertaining to the quality of supportive information provided by commercial manufacturers that can affect the adoption and use of lateral flow serology assays in practice. We aimed to: (1) identify and assess the quality of information that commercial manufacturers provided for their point-of-care tests (POCTs) and (2) examine the implications of these findings on real-world settings.

Design

We used a content analysis methodology in two stages to systematically, code and analyse textual data from documents of commercial manufacturers. A deductive approach was applied using a coding guide based on the validated Point-of-Care Key Evidence Tool (POCKET) multidimensional checklist. An induc

SUBMITTER: Kierkegaard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7985936 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature