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. 2023 Sep 1;25:e46701. doi: 10.2196/46701

Table 2.

Median time to receipt of result (time from start of test and result received into program POC2Doc database [CT/NG: January 2016 to August 2022, TV: April 2018 to August 2022, and SAR-CoV-2: May 2020 to August 2022]; median time includes the test run time [CT/NG: 90 min, TV: 60 min, and SARS-CoV-2: 45 min]) by test type and year.

Test type Year

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
CTa/NGb, n 2221 3721 5923 6885 4643 4662 1843
Time to results (hours), median (IQR) 5.1 (1.7-268.5) 3.7 (2.3-21.4) 3.4 (2.4-4.8) 3.3 (2.3-4.8) 3.9 (2.9-19.6) 2.8 (2.0-3.6) 3.0 (2.0-4.0)
TVc, n N/Ad N/A 2440 5220 3506 3074 1446
Time to results (hours), median (IQR) N/A N/A 3.3 (2.1-4.3) 3.1 (2.0-4.3) 3.8 (2.6-13.2) 2.4 (1.6-3.5) 2.6 (1.5-3.8)
SARS-CoV-2, n N/A N/A N/A N/A 10,233 45,312 16,066
Time to results (hours), median (IQR) N/A N/A N/A N/A 2.4 (1.5-4.6) 1.4 (0.9-2.5) 2.2 (1.2-2.7)

aCT: Chlamydia trachomatis.

bNG: Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

cTV: Trichomonas vaginalis.

dN/A: not applicable.