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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