How to diagnose COVID-19 in family practice? Usability of complete blood count as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool: a cross-sectional study in Turkey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

COVID-19 is currently diagnosed in hospital settings. An easy and practical diagnosis of COVID-19 is needed in primary care. For this purpose, the usability of complete blood count in the diagnosis of COVID-19 was investigated.

Design

Retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Setting

Single-centre study in a tertiary university hospital in Erzurum, Turkey.

Participants

Between March 2020 and February 2021, patients aged 18-70 years who applied to the hospital and underwent both complete blood count and reverse-transcription-PCR tests for COVID-19 were included and compared. Conditions affecting the test parameters (oncological-haematological conditions, chronic diseases, drug usage) were excluded.

Outcome measure

The complete blood count and COVID-

SUBMITTER: Bayraktar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111184 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature