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. 2021 Apr 1;181(4):556-559.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7330.

COVID-19 Test Result Turnaround Time for Residents and Staff in US Nursing Homes

Brian E McGarry  1 , Gillian K SteelFisher  2 , David C Grabowski  3 , Michael L Barnett  2   4
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COVID-19 Test Result Turnaround Time for Residents and Staff in US Nursing Homes

Brian E McGarry et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines trends in test result turnaround rates for COVID-19 testing nursing facility residents and staff in hot spot counties in the US.

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Figure.. National Distribution of Staff and Resident Testing Turnaround Times, August 16 to September 27, 2020
Distribution of test result turnaround times by survey response category for all skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) nationally for (A) residents (14 972 SNFs for time period 1 and 15 036 for time period 2) and (B) staff (14 967 SNFs for time period 1 and 14 988 for time period 2). There were 15 065 SNFs that submitted a nonmissing response to either the resident or staff testing question in time period 2. C and D, The same data for SNFs in 62 hot spot counties (1524 SNFs for resident testing in time period 1 and 1532 for time period 2; 1523 SNFs for staff testing in time period 1 and 1522 for time period 2). The difference in sample size between staff and resident categories within a time period is because, by design, the SNFs that reported that they did not perform resident tests in the preceding 2 weeks did not provide testing result turnaround answers; also, in some time periods, up to 2.5% of 15 355 total SNFs had missing data. There was no option for SNFs to indicate that they did not perform staff testing in the preceding 2 weeks. All estimates are weighted by facility bed size.
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