Laboratory markers included in the Corona Score can identify false negative results on COVID-19 RT-PCR in the emergency room.
Biochem Med (Zagreb)
; 30(3): 030402, 2020 Oct 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-709641
ABSTRACT
After December 2019 outbreak in China, the novel Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has very quickly overflowed worldwide. Infection causes a clinical syndrome encompassing a wide range of clinical features, from asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic course to acute respiratory distress and death. In a very recent work we preliminarily observed that several laboratory tests have been shown as characteristically altered in COVID-19. We aimed to use the Corona score, a validated point-based algorithm to predict the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in patients presenting at the Emergency rooms. This approach combines chest images-relative score and several laboratory parameters to classify emergency room patients. Corona score accuracy was satisfactory, increasing the detection of positive patients' rate.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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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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Emergency Service, Hospital
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Betacoronavirus
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Biochem Med (Zagreb)
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
BM.2020.030402
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