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cord-334210-lhadzo7o	Lepak, Alexander J	Utility of Repeat Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Testing and Refinement of Diagnostic Stewardship Strategies at a Tertiary Care Academic Center in a low Prevalence Area of the United States	2020-08-27		.txt	text/plain	3673	227	55	Key clinical and demographic data was collected including whether the patient was inpatient or outpatient at time of the test and whether the test was performed as part of a person under investigation (PUI) for possible COVID-19 or for asymptomatic screening. CONCLUSIONS: In a low prevalence area, repeat inpatient testing after an initial negative result, using a highly analytically sensitive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR, failed to demonstrate negative-to-positive conversion. In this paper we report the findings of a retrospective observational study to examine results of repeat SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing for patients who were suspected of having COVID-19 (persons under investigation, or PUI) and asymptomatic patients and how the results may inform diagnostic stewardship within our academic medical center in Wisconsin. We believe the biggest lesson learned for our institution is that we found no cases of conversion from a negative to a positive result for inpatients undergoing a repeat PUI test or a repeat asymptomatic screen test.	./cache/cord-334210-lhadzo7o.txt	./txt/cord-334210-lhadzo7o.txt