Open AccessPre-Procedural Antibody Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in routine endoscopic practice
Author(s) -
Alejandro Hernández Camba,
Raquel Reyes,
Manuel HernándezGuerra,
Óscar Alberto Blasco Amato,
Phillip Bennemann,
Natalia Riva,
Sara Diaz Machin,
José Alejandro Medina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2020.7434/2020
Subject(s) - medicine , seroprevalence , serology , covid-19 , cohort , endoscopy , retrospective cohort study , cohort study , clinical practice , antibody , surgery , immunology , virology , family medicine , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
a retrospective multicenter cohort study was performed of all endoscopic procedures performed between April 27 and June 15, 2020. A screening questionnaire (SQ) was performed with patients three days prior to the procedure and 14 days after. Furthermore, a serologic SARS-CoV-2 test was performed 48 hours before.