Rostered routine testing for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among healthcare personnel-Is there a role in a tertiary-care hospital with enhanced infection prevention and control measures and robust sickness-surveillance systems?

Angela Chow^{1

2

3}, Huiling Guo¹, Win Mar Kyaw¹, Anthony Lianjie Li¹, Rachel Hui Fen Lim¹, Brenda Ang^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Office of Clinical Epidemiology, Analytics, and Knowledge, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
² Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.
³ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.

Angela Chow et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Oct.

. 2022 Oct;43(10):1528-1530.

doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.268. Epub 2021 Jun 2.

Angela Chow^{1

2

3}, Huiling Guo¹, Win Mar Kyaw¹, Anthony Lianjie Li¹, Rachel Hui Fen Lim¹, Brenda Ang^{4

5}

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Office of Clinical Epidemiology, Analytics, and Knowledge, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
² Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.
³ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.

No abstract available

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