Transmission risk of patients with COVID-19 meeting discharge criteria should be interpreted with caution / 浙江大学学报(英文版)(B辑:生物医学和生物技术)
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
;
(12): 408-410, 2020.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-826623
ABSTRACT
As of Apr. 22, 2020, the World Health Organization (2020) has reported over 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and 169 151 deaths. Recent articles have uncovered genomic characteristics and clinical features of COVID-19 (Chan et al., 2020; Chang et al., 2020; Guan et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020), while our understanding of COVID-19 is still limited. As suggested by guidelines promoted by the General Office of National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (2020) (from Versions 1 to 6), discharged standards for COVID-19 were still dependent on viral real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests of respiratory specimens, showing that recovered COVID-19 patients with twice negative RT-PCR could meet discharge criteria. Here, we examined two cases in which nucleic acid test results were inconsistent with clinical and radiological findings, leading to suboptimal care.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Patient Discharge
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Pneumonia, Viral
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Sputum
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Virology
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China
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Coronavirus Infections
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Clinical Laboratory Techniques
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Diagnosis
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Etiology study
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Practice guideline
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
Year:
2020
Type:
Article
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