Systematic on-site testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection among asymptomatic essential workers in Montréal, Canada: a prospective observational and cost-assessment …

JR Campbell, C Dion, A Uppal, CP Yansouni… - … Open Access Journal, 2022 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Essential workers are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. We aimed to
estimate the yield, acceptability and cost of systematic workplace-based testing of …

Systematic testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection among essential workers in Montréal, Canada: a prospective observational and cost assessment study

JR Campbell, C Dion, A Uppal, CP Yansouni… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
BACKGROUND Essential workers are at increased risk of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We did a prospective study to estimate the yield …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen screening of asymptomatic employees: a pilot project

KL Schwartz, II Bogoch, D MacInTosh, J Barrow… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Setting Rapid antigen screening can be effective in identifying infectious individuals
in occupational settings to reduce transmission and outbreaks. We report results from a pilot …

Drive-through testing for SARS-CoV-2 in symptomatic health and social care workers and household members: an observational cohort study

BJ Parcell, K Brechin, S Allstaff, M Park, W Third… - Thorax, 2020 - thorax.bmj.com
The requirement for health and social care workers to self-isolate when they or their
household contacts develop symptoms consistent with severe acute respiratory syndrome …

COVID‐19 drive‐through testing survey: Measuring the burden on healthcare workers

AA Smith, J Akerson, J Danahey… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To survey individuals who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) at 1 of 4 Trinity Health of New England drive‐through testing …

Considerations for pooled testing of employees for SARS-CoV-2

PA Schulte, DN Weissman, SE Luckhaupt… - … of Occupational and …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To identify important background information on pooled tested of employees that
employers workers, and health authorities should consider. Methods: This paper is a …

Active testing of groups at increased risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 in Canada: costs and human resource needs

JR Campbell, A Uppal, O Oxlade, F Fregonese… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: Testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) is largely passive, which impedes epidemic control. We defined active testing strategies …

Uptake of SARS-cov-2 workplace testing programs, march 2020 to march 2021

N Duarte, S D'Mello, NA Duarte, S Rocco, J Van Wyk… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Structured Abstract Objective To track uptake of workplace SARS-CoV-2 testing programs
using publicly-available data (eg, press releases), supplementing findings from employer …

Mass testing for asymptomatic COVID-19 infection among health care workers at a large Canadian hospital

RJ Reid, L Rosella, N Milijasevic… - Official Journal of the …, 2020 - jammi.utpjournals.press
Background: The perceived risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection for health
care workers (HCWs) is high. Although testing has focused on symptomatic HCWs …

Low yield of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) asymptomatic routine screen testing, despite high community incidence

DC Kain, NM Stall, AJ McGeer, GA Evans… - Infection Control & …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Methods Beginning July 1, 2020, all nursing-home staff in Ontario, Canada, were required to
undergo serial asymptomatic screen testing for SARS-CoV-2 by nasopharyngeal RT-PCR …