Sequential coupling of dry and wet COVID-19 screening to reduce the number of quarantined individuals.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
; 218: 106715, 2022 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1702300
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Currently, several countries are facing severe public health and policy challenges when designing their COVID-19 screening strategy. A quantitative analysis of the potential impact that combing the Rapid Antigen Test (RAT; Wet screening) and digital checker (Dry screening) can have on the healthcare system is lacking.METHOD:
We created a hypothetical COVID-19 cohort for the analysis. The population size was set as 10 million with three levels of disease prevalence (10%, 1%, or 0.1%) under the assumption that a positive test result will lead to quarantine. A digital checker and two RATs are used for analysis. We further hypothesized two scenarios RAT only and RAT plus digital checker. We then calculated the number of quarantined in both scenarios and compared the two to understand the benefits of sequential coupling of a digital checker with a RAT.RESULT:
Sequential coupling of the digital checker and RAT can significantly reduce the number of individuals quarantined to 0.95-1.33M, 0.86-1.29M, and 0.86-1.29M, respectively, under the three different prevalence levels.CONCLUSION:
Sequential coupling of digital checker and RAT at a population level for COVID-19 positive test to reduce the number of people who require quarantine and alleviating stress on the overburdened healthcare systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.cmpb.2022.106715
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