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ReviewJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2026

Covid-19 testing, sick-pay and public health outbreak management of respiratory infections in care homes: three rapid reviews of the literature.

William Byrd, Nazak Salehi, Catherine Henderson

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Review in Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

William ByrdCare Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.ORCID 0009-0000-6627-1637
Nazak SalehiCare Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.
Catherine HendersonCare Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4340-4702

Funding

UK National Institute for Health Research Health and Social Care Delivery Research NIHR154310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCredible and costed plans for managing future outbreaks of Covid-19 and other respiratory infections depend on the availability of good quality evidence. Methods: Three rapid reviews (RRs) examined evidence on: Bibliographic database searches for each RR and supplementary grey literature searches of Google for RR1 and RR3.

resultsRR1 included 1 study, RR2 none, and RR3, 1 report. RR1: a study of testing undertaken during an outbreak of Covid-19 in one care home. RR3: a report briefly described recommended inputs of one local authority's public health service into managing outbreaks of respiratory infections in settings including care homes.

conclusionThe reviews found little-to-no recent evidence on care home providers' policy and practice on asymptomatic Covid-19 testing, care home sick pay and/or shift backfill, and the incidence of Covid-19 and other respiratory infections, nor on costs of public health teams' outbreak management.

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Clinical Laboratory TechniquesCOVID-19 TestingDisease OutbreaksNursing HomesPublic HealthRespiratory Tract InfectionsCOVID-19HumansPandemicscarersCOVID-19health protection

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PMID41996417
PMCPMC13223584

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