Impact of community asymptomatic rapid antigen testing on covid-19 related hospital admissions: synthetic control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the impact of voluntary rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 antigen in Liverpool city on covid-19 related hospital admissions.

Design

Synthetic control analysis comparing hospital admissions for small areas in the intervention population with a group of control areas weighted to be similar for past covid-19 related hospital admission rates and sociodemographic factors.

Setting

Liverpool city, UK, 6 November 2020 to 2 January 2021, under the intervention of Covid-SMART (systematic meaningful asymptomatic repeated testing) voluntary, open access supervised self-testing with lateral flow devices, compared with control areas selected from the rest of England.

Population

General population of Liverpool (n=498 042) and a synthetic control population fro

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9682337 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature