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Benefit of Expanded Surveillance of Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NCT04933981 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1587

Last updated 2024-04-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Residents in nursing homes for the senior citizens (NH) are at high risk for death from COVID-19. We investigated whether repeated non-mandatory RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 surveillance of NH staff and visitors reduces COVID-19 incidence rates in NH residents and allows to reduce visiting restrictions.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2

in the interventional group, regular, i.e. twice to three times weekly, SARS-CoV-2 testing was offered to health-care workers and visitors of nursing homes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • City Council of Cologne, Department of Public Health, NRW, Germany

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • City Council of Cologne, Department of Social Affairs, Health and Environment, NRW, Germany

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Cologne

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Oliver A Cornely, MD · University of Cologne

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-15
Primary Completion
2020-12-15
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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