Improving Testing Strategy With Pooling
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, every country has emphasized the importance of diagnostic testing as a measure to control the outbreak. However, each Covid-19 test demands a huge amount of money and resources. But even in this situation, testing individuals regularly is the dire need to contain the virus. However, the cost of testing is unaffordable for many lab centers, which have only limited resources for large-scale Covid-19 testing.
Along with cost, the speed of testing is another concern as COVID-19 is highly contagious. Isn’t it important to find an efficient way to identify the test results at a quicker rate? Hence, to strengthen the diagnostic capacity, Cloud Pathology has introduced a feature, Pooling. This feature is cost-effective and time-saving, and it will enable labs for large-scale testing with ease.
Here are the reason that proves how effective and structured Pooling feature is-
Worklist Option for Multiple Records
Every pathologist knows how time-consuming and laborious is to evaluate multiple records at a time. And in Covid- 19 outbreak, the demand for testing is increasing with each passing day. Moreover, on-time evaluation is also necessary for individual testing.
Hence, Cloud pathology has averted the need for evaluating the record one by one. By using the Worklist option, you can select multiple records, choose the testing format, and name the worklist as per your choice. It is a time-saving and efficient method to evaluate multiple records in one place.
Support Pooling For Large Scale Testing
It might be feasible to collect swabs for testing from patients regularly. But identifying the infection through RT-PCR is a laborious process. This whole process requires skilled lab operators and expensive chemical reagents which are in short supply. And each RT-PCR test takes several hours in the lab, during which the virus might spread.
Hence, to reduce the cost and minimize the number of tests, the pooling feature comes in handy. This feature rules out the need for performing one test per person. Pooling involves the mixing of several samples together in a batch or pooled sample. By default, the pool size is applicate up to 5. Then it tests the pooled sample with a diagnostic test. In this way, the Pooling feature increases the number of testing that can be done with the same amount of resources.
How Pooling Feature is a big advantage for labs-
Time Saving
It just takes 1–2 clicks to apply the pooling feature that hastens the process of large-scale testing. There is no intricate process in applying the feature, just some keyboard shortcuts and the rest is itself done.
Expand Testing Criteria
The pooling feature makes large-scale testing efficient and effective without any additional cost. For example- five samples can be tested together, using only a single test resource. This feature is highly preferable when there is a low prevalence of cases meaning more negative results instead of positive ones.
Cost-Effective
One of the main obstacles for the diagnostic centre is achieving a large cost saving on testing the samples without compromising detection. And Pooling feature will cut the number of standard tests. It will enable labs to save money on tests, reagents, and essential supplies. Eventually, it will ease the burden on the lab’s technical staff.
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