Accuracy and Acceptance of a Self-Collection Model for Respiratory Tract Infection Diagnostics: A Concise Clinical Literature Review.
J Emerg Nurs
; 47(5): 798-806, 2021 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1284202
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Nurses are the primary clinicians who collect specimens for respiratory tract infection testing. The specimen collection procedure is time and resource-consuming, but more importantly, it places nurses at risk for potential infection. The practice of allowing patients to self-collect their diagnostic specimens may provide an alternative testing model for the current COVID-19 outbreaks. The objective of this paper was to evaluate the accuracy and patient perception of self-collected specimens for respiratory tract infection diagnostics.METHODS:
A concise clinical review of the recently published literature was conducted.RESULTS:
A total of 11 articles were included the review synthesis. The concept of self-collected specimens has a high patient acceptance rate of 83-99%. Self-collected nasal-swab specimens demonstrated strong diagnostic fidelity for respiratory tract infections with a sensitivity between 80-100%, this is higher than the 76% sensitivity observed with self-collected throat specimens. In a comparative study evaluating a professionally collected to a self-collected specimen for COVID-19 testing, a high degree of agreement (k = 0.89) was observed between the two methods.CONCLUSION:
As we continue to explore for testing models to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, self-collected specimens is a practical alternative to nurse specimen collection.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Respiratory Tract Infections
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Specimen Handling
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Emerg Nurs
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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