Utilisation of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen assays in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors: mitigating the risk in low-incidence settings

Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures

“…Asymptomatic visitors may escape detection at symptom-based triage and have been implicated in nosocomial clusters; however, screening asymptomatic visitors remains logistically challenging. 7 At our campus, ≥1200 visitors entered daily. No-visitor policies have been considered, but this poses potential psychological distress to patients.…”

“…All visitors donned masks and if visiting for ≥30 minutes, required antigen-testing. 7 Two asymptomatic, fully-vaccinated visitors/inpatient/day were allowed at maximum. 7 …”

Correspondence on “The Low Yield of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing in Screening Asymptomatic Hospital Visitors in Low-incidence Settings”

“…al. (Boddeti et al, 2022) in our article that reported the use of rapid-antigen detection (RAD) in screening asymptomatic hospital visitors for SARS-CoV-2 at the point-of-entry during the COVID-19 pandemic (Wee et al, 2022).…”

The Low Yield of SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Testing in Screening Asymptomatic Hospital Visitors in Low-incidence Settings

“…al. (Wee et al, 2021) which explores the use of rapid-antigen detection (RAD) testing in asymptomatic hospital visitor screening.…”