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cord-344213-j3yextjl	Sze, Shirley	The need for improved discharge criteria for hospitalised patients with COVID-19—implications for patients in long term care facilities	2020-09-19		.txt	text/plain	1195	76	52	In the COVID-19 pandemic, patients who are older and residents of long term care facilities (LTCF) are at greatest risk of worse clinical outcomes. We reviewed discharge criteria for hospitalised COVID-19 patients from ten countries with the highest incidence of COVID-19 cases as of 26th July 2020. We recommend a unified, simpler discharge criteria, based on current studies which suggest that most SARS-CoV-2 loses its infectivity by 10 days post-symptom onset. This represents a practical compromise between unnecessarily prolonged admissions and returning highly infectious patients back to their care facilities, and is of particular importance in older patients discharged to LTCFs, residents of which may be at greatest risk of transmission and worse clinical outcomes.  Current evidence suggests that most patients are non-infective 10 days post symptom onset or after first positive PCR result COVID-19 is a global pandemic.	./cache/cord-344213-j3yextjl.txt	./txt/cord-344213-j3yextjl.txt