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A new combination testing methodology to identify accurate and economical point-of-care testing strategies
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Background: Quick, cheap and accurate point-of-care testing is urgently needed to enable frequent, large-scale testing to contain COVID-19. Lateral flow tests for antigen and antibody detection are an obvious candidate for use in community-wide testing, because they are quick and cheap relative to lab-processed tests. However, their low accuracy has limited their adoption. We develop a new methodology to increase the diagnostic accuracy of a combination of cheap, qui...
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Article number:
- 958
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-16
- Paper number:
- 958
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English
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1226817
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pubs:1226817
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2021-12-22
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- Jain et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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