Optimizing COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care facilities: a modelling study

Optimizing COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care facilities: a modelling study

Abstract Background Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are vulnerable to outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Timely epidemiological surveillance is essential for outbreak response, but is complicated by a high proportion of silent (non-symptomatic) infections and limited testing resourc...

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Main Authors: David R. M. Smith, Audrey Duval, Koen B. Pouwels, Didier Guillemot, Jérôme Fernandes, Bich-Tram Huynh, Laura Temime, Lulla Opatowski, on behalf of the AP-HP/Universities/Inserm COVID-19 research collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Testing
Infectious disease surveillance
Long-term care
Transmission dynamics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01866-6

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01866-6

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