Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Swab screening scenario |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Self-sampling at home | Self-sampling in the hospital | Sampling by a healthcare provider | |
| Patients, n (% of total, n = 431) | 40 (9.3%) | 345 (80.2%) | 45 (10.5%) |
| Number of hospitals, n (% of total, n = 9) | 8 (88.9%) | 8 (88.9%) | 5 (55.6%) |
| Division of patients per hospital, n (% within scenario group) | |||
| Hospital A | 1 (2.5%) | 9 (2.6%) | 1 (2.2%) |
| Hospital B | 2 (5.0%) | 20 (5.8%) | 9 (20.0%) |
| Hospital C | 4 (10.0%) | 90 (26.1%) | 11 (24.4%) |
| Hospital D | 1 (2.5%) | 1 (0.3%) | 22 (48.9%) |
| Hospital E | 8 (20.0%) | 142 (41.2%) | 2 (4.4%) |
| Hospital F | 9 (22.5%) | 2 (0.6%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Hospital G | 1 (2.5%) | 49 (14.2%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Hospital H | 0 (0.0%) | 32 (9.3%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Hospital I | 14 (35.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Patient age, years, median (IQR) | 67 (63–72) | 69 (64–73) | 70 (62–75) |
| Highest educational attainment, n (%) | |||
| Never finished school, primary school or elementary school | 1 (2.5%) | 31 (9.0%) | 4 (8.9%) |
| Junior or intermediate vocational education or lower general secondary school | 14 (35.0%) | 158 (45.8%) | 28 (62.2%) |
| Higher general secondary education or school for higher vocational education | 19 (47.5%) | 105 (30.4%) | 10 (22.2%) |
| University | 4 (10.0%) | 38 (11.0%) | 3 (6.7%) |
| Other | 2 (5.0%) | 11 (3.2%) | 0 (0%) |
| Unknown | 0 (0%) | 2 (0.6%) | 0 (0%) |