Implementation of facemask sampling for the detection of infectious individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in high stakes clinical examinations – a feasibility study
FMS during PACES exams are acceptable among participants and samples provided are suitable for processing. Our results demonstrate feasibility of FMS within practical examination settings and support the further assessment of FMS as a scalable tool that can be compared with URTS to identify those who are infectious.
Authors
- Manish Pareek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-9964)
- Paul W Bird
- Christopher Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2337-4799)
- Caroline Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7258-0417)
- Eve Fletcher
- Michael R. Barer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0377-3100)
- Kate O’Kelly
- Latif Rahman
- Daniel Pan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1268-2243)
- Shirley Sze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5083)
- Joshua Nazareth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0603-9091)
- Harshil Dhutia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6749-3271)
- Jonathan Decker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7384-7304)
- Natalia Grolmusova
- Irfana Musa
- Rakesh Panchal
Institutions
- Department of Health (CN)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Discovery Centre (CA)
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (GB)
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Future Healthcare Journal
- Published
- 2024-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2024.100175
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.79
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research