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Testing over 70s on admission to hospital for COVID-19

Safe People

Organisation name

NHS Lothian

Applicant name(s)

Prof Nick Mills

Safe Projects

Project ID

DL_2020_003

Lay summary

In late April 2020, a change in COVID-19 testing strategy was implemented in NHS Lothian after a Scottish Government instruction to test all patients over 70 years old being admitted to hospital irrespective of displaying symptoms or not. This project sought to provide an initial analysis on what this change in testing criteria meant for the numbers of tests being undertaken for those in different age categories.

Request category type

Health Services & Delivery

Latest approval date

04/05/2020

Safe Data

Dataset(s) name
Data sensitivity level

Anonymous

Safe Setting

Access type

Release