Test‐based attendance vs routine isolation after contact with a SARS‐CoV‐2 positive person: Confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection
It is very uncertain whether test‐based attendance changes rates of any PCR‐positive SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (over 13‐week compared with routine isolation after contact with a SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive person (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Test‐based attendance vs routine isolation after contact with a SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive person Rates of any PCR‐positive SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (over 13‐week · school staff It is very uncertain whether test‐based attendance changes rates of any PCR‐positive SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (over 13‐week compared with routine isolation after contact with a SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive person (very low certainty). Workplace interventions to reduce the risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection outside of healthcare settings (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.35 [0.82, 2.21] | 1 study · 24027 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workplace interventions to reduce the risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection outside of healthcare settings 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.