Asymptomatic testing compared with standard care of the care home staff in shaping care home COVID-19 testing policy: the VIVALDI-CT pragmatic cluster RCT (VIVALDI-CT)
This synopsis presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme as award number NIHR154310.
Authors
- James Blackstone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4335-5269)
- Oliver Stirrup (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8705-3281)
- Robert Fenner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-9601)
- Maria Krutikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3982-642X)
- Paul Flowers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6239-5616)
- Ruth Leiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6493-2793)
- Lily O'Brien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7786-3683)
- Nick Freemantle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5807-5740)
- Jackie Cassell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0777-0385)
- Martyn Regan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-9913)
- Natalie Adams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-480X)
- Adam Gordon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1676-9853)
- Andrew J Copas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8968-5963)
- Dorina Cadar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1398-5841)
- Iona Cullen-Stephenson
- Susan Hopkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-2382)
- Catherine Henderson
- Lara Gosce
- Laura Shallcross
- Martin Knapp
- Arpana Verma
Institutions
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School (GB)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- University of Strathclyde (GB)
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL (GB)
- UK Health Security Agency (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health and Social Care Delivery Research
- Published
- 2025-06-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3310/gjls1610
- Primary Topic
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Health and Social Care Delivery Research