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Optimizing COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care facilities: a modelling study
- Abstract:
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Background: Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are vulnerable to outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Timely epidemiological surveillance is essential for outbreak response, but is complicated by a high proportion of silent (non-symptomatic) infections and limited testing resources.
Methods: We used a stochastic, individual-based model to simulate transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) along detaile...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMC Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 386-
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-7015
- ISSN:
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1741-7015
- Pmid:
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33287821
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1150328
- Local pid:
- pubs:1150328
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-29
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- Smith et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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