Evaluation of Allocation Schemes of COVID-19 Testing Resources in a Community-Based Door-to-Door Testing Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Overcoming social barriers to COVID-19 testing is an important issue, especially given the demographic disparities in case incidence rates and testing. Delivering culturally appropriate testing resources using data-driven approaches in partnership with community-based health workers is promising, but little data are available on the design and effect of such interventions.

Objectives

To assess and evaluate a door-to-door COVID-19 testing initiative that allocates visits by community health workers by selecting households in areas with a high number of index cases, by using uncertainty sampling for areas where the positivity rate may be highest, and by relying on local knowledge of the health workers.

Design setting and participants

This cohort study was per

SUBMITTER: Chugg B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796878 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature