{"id":1783734,"date":"2022-12-22T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783734"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:48:03","slug":"experts-tell-hospitals-stop-testing-new-admissions-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-tell-hospitals-stop-testing-new-admissions-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Tell Hospitals: Stop Testing New Admissions For COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-tell-hospitals-stop-testing-new-admissions-for-covid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783734&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A panel of infectious disease experts is urging hospitals to stop testing new admissions for COVID.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, 12 experts affiliated with the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology\/article\/asymptomatic-screening-for-severe-acute-respiratory-coronavirus-virus-2-sarscov2-as-an-infection-prevention-measure-in-healthcare-facilities-challenges-and-considerations\/5D9FF2904AD88CDBDA5CAFD29A965A69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> that when hospitals employ masking and proper ventilation, testing for the virus can have deleterious effects, including \u201cdelays in patient placement\u201d and \u201cpostponement of necessary procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in published in Cambridge University Press\u2019 Infection Control &#038; Hospital Epidemiology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of asymptomatic screening is a unique yet resource-intensive tool that arguably has been overused,\u201d the articles executive summary reads. \u201cAlthough it is imperative to prevent healthcare-associated spread of respiratory pathogens, we must critically assess interventions that, when added upon core layers of infection prevention, may not attain the intended impact and may have unintended consequences for patients and HCP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The experts also said that there could be a time for mass testing, but that it was not always necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdmission screening may be beneficial during times of increased virus transmission in some settings where other layers of controls are limited (eg, behavioral health, congregate care, or shared patient rooms), but widespread routine use of admission asymptomatic screening is not recommended over strengthening other infection prevention controls,\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n<p>The authors delineated the methods to reduce spreading the virus in hospitals.\u201cKey interventions that are important to reduce the risk of respiratory virus spread in healthcare facilities include patient symptom screening, avoidance of HCP presenteeism, optimization of ventilation, environmental cleaning, hand hygiene, source control with masking, isolation of suspect and confirmed infected patients, and vaccination of patients and HCP,\u201d the said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the setting of these layered hierarchies of control, the added benefit of asymptomatic screening is uncertain,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The panel did allow that pre-admission screenings for patients at risk of developing a serious form of COVID, such as organ transplant and cancer patients, should be utilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe small benefits that could come from asymptomatic testing at this stage in the pandemic are over ridden by potential harms from delays in procedures, delays in patient transfers, and strains on laboratory capacity and personnel,\u201d Dr Thomas Talbot, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-12-pre-procedure-pre-admission-covid-longer-asymptomatic.html\">stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 2022 study, the Cook County, Illinois Department of Emergency Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9098307\/\">examined<\/a> the effect of universal screening of patients with a behavior health problem between March 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020 and found that routine asymptomatic Covid testing made patients spend an average of 7.3 more hours in the emergency room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of infectious disease experts is urging hospitals to stop testing new admissions for COVID. In a new study, 12 experts affiliated with the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), argued that when hospitals employ masking and proper ventilation, testing for the virus can have deleterious effects, including \u201cdelays in patient placement\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1783737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9369,6962,11136,4127,6202,4521,6126,6420,5410,6127,6287,6195],"class_list":["post-1783734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-for","tag-the","tag-admissions","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-experts","tag-hospitals","tag-new","tag-stop","tag-tell","tag-testing","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}