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Table 2 Use Case Priorities

From: Care pathway and prioritization of rapid testing for COVID-19 in UK hospitals: a qualitative evaluation

ID

Specialty

Test Priority (Symptoms, Risk)

Sensitivity or Specificity Priority

Thoughts on Use Case Priorities

P1

Critical Care

N/A

N/A

Elective Surgery, Differential Cohorting, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery

P2

Microbiology and Pathology

Mild Symptoms, Asymptomatic

N/AI

Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery

P3

Emergency Medicine

Severe/Mild Symptoms, Asymptomatic (High Risk)

Sensitivity

Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Urgent Surgery, Dialysis, Chemotherapy, Staff Testing, AGPa,

P4

Infectious Diseases

N/A

N/A

Differential cohorting, Patient Flow

P5

Emergency Medicine and Acute Medicine

N/A

Sensitivity

Clinician Dependent

P6

Virology and Microbiology

Severe/Mild Symptoms

Specificity

Urgent Surgery, Transplant

P7

Acute Respiratory

Shielding Patients

N/A

AGP, Patient Flow

P8

Infectious Diseases

Mild and Asymptomatic

N/A

Emergency and Acute Admissions, Maternity

P9

Microbiology and Infection Control

N/A

Sensitivity

Elective Surgery, Patient Flow

P10

Emergency Medicine

Mild/Unclear Symptoms

N/A

Dialysis, Urgent Surgery

P11

Gastroenterology and General Medicine

Mild Symptoms

N/A

Patient Flow, Respiratory ED, Surgery

P12

Nephrology

N/A

N/A

Elective Surgery, Patient Flow, Transplant

P13

General Surgery

Mild/Unclear Symptomatic, Asymptomatic

Sensitivity

Chemotherapy, Surgery

P14

Acute Medicine

Mild/Unclear Symptomatic, Asymptomatic

Specificity

AGP, NIVb, Patient Flow

P15

Acute Medicine

N/A

Sensitivity

Maternity, General Anaesthetics, NIV, Endoscopy

P16

Retinal Surgery

High Risk Patients

N/A

General Anaesthetic

  1. N/A - The interviewee was unsure, didn’t explicitly state a priority, or wasn’t explicitly asked
  2. I The Clinician commented that the potential for user error was having more of an effect than any low sensitivity/specificity
  3. aAerosol Generating Procedures (AGP), bNon-Invasive Ventilation (NIV)