The EU one-stop-shop collection of publicly available information on COVID-19 in vitro diagnostic medical devices

F1000Res. 2020 Nov 3:9:1296. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.27308.1. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

The JRC COVID-19 In Vitro Diagnostic Devices and Test Methods Database, aimed to collect in a single place all publicly available information on performance of CE-marked in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) as well as in house laboratory-developed devices and related test methods for COVID-19, is here presented. The database, manually curated and regularly updated, has been developed as a follow-up to the Communication from the European Commission "Guidelines on in vitro diagnostic tests and their performance" of 15 April 2020 and is freely accessible at https://covid-19-diagnostics.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.

Keywords: In-vitro diagnostics; covid-19; detection method; sars-cov-2.

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / diagnosis*
  • Databases, Factual*
  • European Union
  • Humans
  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic*

Substances

  • Reagent Kits, Diagnostic

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Joint Research Centre.