| Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
| T160 |
0-39 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Scaling Up Access to Diagnostic Testing |
| T161 |
40-204 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In the face of a public health emergency, important first steps to expand testing capacity include relaxing and streamlining regulatory requirements and procedures. |
| T162 |
205-432 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Local public health laboratories and academic diagnostic laboratories in the United States are being rapidly enabled to perform EUA-granted commercial assays and laboratory-developed tests using research use–only reagents (61). |
| T163 |
433-602 |
Sentence |
denotes |
University research laboratories could also add capacity, although concerns exist regarding quality control and the absence of protocols for managing clinical specimens. |
| T164 |
603-737 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Flexibility regarding nucleic acid extraction methods and amplification instruments when using CDC protocols is being introduced (34). |
| T165 |
738-896 |
Sentence |
denotes |
National agencies are expeditiously making materials for test development and validation available to clinical laboratories and diagnostic test manufacturers. |
| T166 |
897-1065 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Safely evaluating clinically stable persons for COVID-19 at traditional health care access points is resource intensive and slow, and risks exposing staff to infection. |
| T167 |
1066-1296 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Many jurisdictions are enabling innovative testing venues, such as external tents or drive-through or “phone booth” testing, as well as home assessment teams to expedite specimen collection while limiting potential exposures (62). |
| T168 |
1297-1384 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Telemedicine combined with at-home nasal swab self-testing also has been proposed (63). |
| T169 |
1385-1576 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Of importance, in jurisdictions without universal health care coverage, policy solutions must be introduced to eliminate financial barriers to testing for uninsured and underinsured patients. |
| T170 |
1577-1754 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Efforts to increase accessibility of testing for multiple use cases need to be coupled to appropriate public health interventions to isolate infected persons and their contacts. |
