Keeley, A.J., Evans, C., Colton, H. et al. (7 more authors) (2020) Roll-out of SARS-CoV-2 testing for healthcare workers at a large NHS foundation trust in the United Kingdom, March 2020. Eurosurveillance, 25 (14). ISSN 1560-7917
Abstract
Healthcare workers (HCW) are potentially at increased risk of infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and may transmit severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to vulnerable patients. We present results from staff testing at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. Between 16 and 29 March 2020, 1,533 symptomatic HCW were tested, of whom 282 (18%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. Testing HCW is a crucial strategy to optimise staffing levels during this outbreak.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; diagnostic test; healthcare workers; Betacoronavirus; Clinical Laboratory Techniques; Coronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Disease Outbreaks; Guidelines as Topic; Health Personnel; Humans; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Prevalence; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; State Medicine; United Kingdom |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2020 12:25 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2025 23:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.14.2000433 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160152 |