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Effectiveness of a COVID‐19 screening questionnaire for pregnant women at admission to an obstetric unit in Milan
Author(s) -
Tassis Beatrice,
Lunghi Giovanna,
Frattaruolo Maria P.,
Ruggiero Marta,
Somigliana Edgardo,
Ferrazzi Enrico
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/ijgo.13191
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , covid-19 , pregnancy , unit (ring theory) , obstetrics , hospital admission , pediatrics , emergency medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , physics , mathematics education , biology , outbreak , optics , genetics , mathematics
Screening for SARS‐Cov‐2 at hospital admission using a specific questionnaire is less effective than nasopharyngeal swab but more sustainable, hence it can be considered in contexts with low incidence of the virus.