Utility of routine post-admission testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a rehabilitation facility

Victoria R Williams; Larry Robinson; Morty Eisenberg; Kuldeep Virdi; Robert Kozak; Jerome A Leis

doi:10.1017/ash.2024.14

Utility of routine post-admission testing for SARS-CoV-2 in a rehabilitation facility

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 12;4(1):e21. doi: 10.1017/ash.2024.14. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Victoria R Williams¹, Larry Robinson², Morty Eisenberg², Kuldeep Virdi¹, Robert Kozak³, Jerome A Leis^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Infection Prevention and Control, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Shared Hospital Laboratory, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Asymptomatic screening for SARS-CoV-2 is recommended in healthcare settings during periods of increased incidence, yet studies in rehabilitation settings are lacking. Routine weekly post-admission asymptomatic testing in a rehabilitation facility offered marginal gain beyond syndromic and targeted unit testing and was not associated with a reduced risk of healthcare-associated COVID-19.