Rapid COVID-19 testing: Speed, quality and cost. Can you have all three?

doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.05.009

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. 2021 Sep:95:13-14.

doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.05.009. Epub 2021 May 26.

Rapid COVID-19 testing: Speed, quality and cost. Can you have all three?

Lori A Beach¹, Angela W S Fung², Michael J Knauer³, Julie L V Shaw⁴, Jennifer Taher⁵

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¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IWK Health and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Electronic address: lori.beach@iwk.nshealth.ca.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁴ Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratories Association and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 34048775
PMCID: PMC8149163
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.05.009

Editorial

Rapid COVID-19 testing: Speed, quality and cost. Can you have all three?

Lori A Beach et al. Clin Biochem. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep:95:13-14.

doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.05.009. Epub 2021 May 26.

Authors

Lori A Beach¹, Angela W S Fung², Michael J Knauer³, Julie L V Shaw⁴, Jennifer Taher⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IWK Health and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Electronic address: lori.beach@iwk.nshealth.ca.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁴ Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratories Association and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

PMID: 34048775
PMCID: PMC8149163
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2021.05.009

Abstract

KEY MESSAGES.

Keywords: COVID-19; Point-of-care testing (POCT); Quality management; SARS-CoV-2.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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[1] Yip P.M., Shea J., Fuezery A., Huang Y., Massicotte L., Tetreault N. Point-of-care testing: a position statement from the canadian society of clinical chemists. Clin. Biochem. 2018;53:156–159. - PubMed

[2] Yip P.M., Shea J., Fuezery A., Huang Y., Massicotte L., Tetreault N. Point-of-care testing: a position statement from the canadian society of clinical chemists. Clin. Biochem. 2018;53:156–159. - PubMed

[3] Venner A.A., Beach L.A., Shea J.L., Knauer M., Huang Y., Fung A.W.S. Quality assurance practices for point of care testing programs: recommendations by the Canadian Society of Clinical chemists point of care testing interest group. Clin. Biochem. 2021;(88):11–17. - PubMed

[4] Venner A.A., Beach L.A., Shea J.L., Knauer M., Huang Y., Fung A.W.S. Quality assurance practices for point of care testing programs: recommendations by the Canadian Society of Clinical chemists point of care testing interest group. Clin. Biochem. 2021;(88):11–17. - PubMed

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