Universal SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR admission screening over 21 months in a German tertiary care hospital: detection of asymptomatic infections
Isabella Eiter, Till Gallasch, Sören Krüger, Michael Eisenmann, Vera Rauschenberger, Anna Höhn, Sina Ebert, Kerstin Knies, Christiane Prifert, Benedikt Weißbrich, Lars Dölken, Stefanie Kampmeier, Isabell Wagenhäuser, Manuel Krone · 2026
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Isabella Eiter and colleagues report 21 months of universal coronavirus testing for everyone admitted to a large German hospital during the pandemic. From April 2020 to December 2021, each new patient and accompanying person got a throat swab test on arrival.
Of 111,271 people screened, 705 tested positive, and 236 of them had not been diagnosed before the admission test. Among the new finds, 110 people had no symptoms and no known contact with a case. The test wrongly flagged almost no one, with accuracy for ruling out infection near perfect in screening use. Finding one positive person cost about 8,083 euros on average, which Eiter weighs against the infections screening prevented.
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| CREATOR | Isabella Eiter, Till Gallasch, Sören Krüger, Michael Eisenmann, Vera Rauschenberger, Anna Höhn, Sina Ebert, Kerstin Knies, Christiane Prifert, Benedikt Weißbrich, Lars Dölken, Stefanie Kampmeier, Isabell Wagenhäuser, Manuel Krone |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |