TY - JOUR AU - Smith, David R. M. AU - Duval, Audrey AU - Pouwels, Koen B. AU - Guillemot, Didier AU - Fernandes, Jérôme AU - Huynh, Bich-Tram AU - Temime, Laura AU - Opatowski, Lulla AU - on behalf of the AP-HP/Universities/Inserm COVID-19 research collaboration PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/08 TI - Optimizing COVID-19 surveillance in long-term care facilities: a modelling study JO - BMC Medicine SP - 386 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are vulnerable to outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Timely epidemiological surveillance is essential for outbreak response, but is complicated by a high proportion of silent (non-symptomatic) infections and limited testing resources. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01866-6 DO - 10.1186/s12916-020-01866-6 ID - Smith2020 ER -