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Near-patient testing for RSV in the emergency department
  1. Thomas F Beattie1,
  2. Kate Templeton2,
  3. Kirsty Mclellan2
  1. 1 Department of Emergency medicine, The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
  2. 2 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas F Beattie, Emergency Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 3JU, UK; tombeattie67{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203246

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    We note the paper on near-patient testing (NPT) for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in cases of bronchiolitis by Walsh et al 1 It is an interesting paper, but we suggest it fails to acknowledge one of the main uses of this particular test methodology. The test analysed also has a poorer performance than the one we use.

    Bronchiolitis is a common respiratory disease in early childhood and infancy. The diagnosis is a clinical one and should never rely on a diagnostic …

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    • Competing interests Previous publications on near-patient testing for RSV in emergency departments.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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