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ReviewClinics in laboratory medicine2022

Clinical Diagnostic Point-of-Care Molecular Assays for SARS-CoV-2.

Nicole V Tolan, Gary L Horowitz

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Review in Clinics in laboratory medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nicole V TolanDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Cotran 2, Boston, MA 01752, USA. Electronic address: ntolan@bwh.harvard.edu.
Gary L HorowitzDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Laboratories faced many challenges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Point-of-care (POC) SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) provided a key solution to the need for rapid turnaround time in select patient populations and were implemented at the POC but also within laboratories to supplement traditional molecular assays. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-waived rapid POC SARS-CoV-2 NAATs offer the benefit of reduced educational requirements for operators and can be performed by non-laboratory-trained individuals. However, these methods must be validated to ensure the manufacturer's performance specifications are met and they are found to be fit-for-purpose in the clinical workflows they are implemented.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansPandemicsPoint-of-Care SystemsPoint-of-Care TestingCOVID-19 pandemicMethod validationPoint-of-care testingRapid nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs)SARS-CoV-2 molecular assays

Identifiers

PMID35636823
PMCPMC8894858

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