Pitfall of Universal Pre-Admission Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in a Low Prevalence Country

Pitfall of Universal Pre-Admission Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in a Low Prevalence Country

Sung-Han Kim, Mi-Na Kim, Jiwon Jung, Jinyeong Kim, Joon Seo Lim, Eun Ok Kim

It is unclear whether universal PCR screening for SARS-CoV-2 in asymptomatic individuals prior to admission is useful. From April to December 2020, the positive rate of universal pre-admission screening was 0.005% (4/76,521) in a tertiary care hospital in Korea. The positive rates were not different between the periods (period 1 (daily new patients of

2021

covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, universal screening

10.3390/v13050804

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Microbiology