{"id":4601,"date":"2024-02-14T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:40:43","slug":"researchers-report-covid-home-tests-as-accurate-as-the-same-tests-given-by-a-clinician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-report-covid-home-tests-as-accurate-as-the-same-tests-given-by-a-clinician\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers report COVID home tests as accurate as the same tests given by a clinician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A single-center study conducted at a free community testing site in Maryland suggests that patient-administered BinaxNow COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) have similar accuracy as those performed by a clinician, although the results can be misinterpreted or falsely negative.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital and Johns Hopkins University and their collaborators compared the sensitivity and specificity of Abbott\u2019s BinaxNOW home RAT with those administered by a healthcare provider and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from February to July 2022, a period of Omicron variant predominance.<\/p>\n<p>The median age of the 953 participants was 34 years, 60.6% were women, 58.6% were White, 98.2% were English-speaking, and 34.1% had at least one COVID-19 symptom. Hospital staff administered both a RAT and an RT-PCR test to participants, who then self-tested with a RAT, the results of which were both self-reported and reviewed by the researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single-center study conducted at a free community testing site in Maryland suggests that patient-administered BinaxNow COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) have similar accuracy as those performed by a clinician, although the results can be misinterpreted or falsely negative.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital and Johns Hopkins University and their collaborators compared the sensitivity and specificity of Abbott\u2019s BinaxNOW home RAT with those administered by a healthcare provider and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from February to July 2022, a period of Omicron variant predominance.<\/p>\n<p>The median age of the 953 participants was 34 years, 60.6% were women, 58.6% were White, 98.2% were English-speaking, and 34.1% had at least one COVID-19 symptom. Hospital staff administered both a RAT and an RT-PCR test to participants, who then self-tested with a RAT, the results of which were both self-reported and reviewed by the researchers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/researchers-report-covid-home-tests-as-accurate-as-the-same-tests-given-by-a-clinician\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers report COVID home tests as accurate as the same tests given by a clinician<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[899,897,898,18,227,796,55,22,8,14,51],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abbott","tag-baltimore-convention-center-field-hospital","tag-binaxnow","tag-covid-19","tag-johns-hopkins-university","tag-maryland","tag-omicron","tag-rapid-tests","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}