Rapid testing for group B streptococcus during labour: a test accuracy study with evaluation of acceptability and cost-effectiveness
Daniels J, Gray J, Pattison H, Roberts T, Edwards E, Milner P, Spicer L, King E, Hills RK, Gray R, Buckley L, Magill L, Elliman N, Kaambwa B, Bryan S, Howard R, Thompson P, Khan KS
Record ID 32005000949
English
Authors' recommendations:
Study found that neither the polymerase chain reaction rapid test nor the optical immunoassay rapid test for group B streptococcal colonisation of women in labour were sufficiently accurate to recommend them for routine use in clinical practice
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1388
Year Published:
2009
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis
- Attitude to Health
- Bacteriological Techniques
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Ethnicity
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Premature
- Midwifery
- Parity
- Patient Dropouts
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications
- Risk Factors
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Young Adult
- Immunoassay
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases
- Mass Screening
- Obstetric Labor Complications
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Rectum
- Streptococcal Infections
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Vagina
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2009 Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO
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