Preventing COVID-19 outbreaks through surveillance testing in healthcare facilities: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surveillance testing within healthcare facilities provides an opportunity to prevent severe outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the quantitative impact of different available surveillance strategies and their potential to decrease the frequency of outbreaks are not well-understood.

Methods

We establish an individual-based model representative of a mental health hospital yielding generalizable results. Attributes and features of this facility were derived from a prototypical hospital, which provides psychiatric, psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic treatment. We estimate the relative reduction of outbreak probability for three test strategies (entry test, once-weekly test and twice-weekly test) relative to a symptom-based baseline strategy. Ba

SUBMITTER: Litwin T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature