Accuracy of Emergency Department Clinical Findings for Diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

We seek to describe the medical history and clinical findings of patients attending the emergency department (ED) with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and estimate the diagnostic accuracy of patients' characteristics for predicting COVID-19.

Methods

We prospectively enrolled all patients tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in our ED from March 9, 2020, to April 4, 2020. We abstracted medical history, physical examination findings, and the clinical probability of COVID-19 (low, moderate, and high) rated by emergency physicians, depending on their clinical judgment. We assessed diagnostic accuracy of these characteristics for COVID-19 by calculating positive and negative lik

SUBMITTER: Peyrony O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241345 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature