Cost-Benefit of Real-Time Multiplex PCR Testing of SARS-CoV-2 in German Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current Omicron COVID-19 pandemic has significant morbidity worldwide.

Objective

Assess the cost-benefit relation of implementing PCR point-of-care (POCT) COVID-19 testing in the emergency rooms (ERs) of German hospitals and in the case of inpatient admission due to other acute illnesses.

Methods

A deterministic decision-analytic model simulated the incremental costs of using the Savanna^® Multiplex RT-PCR test compared to using clinical judgement alone to confirm or exclude COVID-19 in adult patients in German ERs prior to hospitalization or just prior to discharge. Direct and indirect costs were evaluated from the hospital perspective. Nasal or nasopharyngeal swabs of patients suspected to have COVID-19 by clinical judgement, but without POC

SUBMITTER: Diel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9960777 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature