Emergency teleradiological activity is an epidemiological estimator and predictor of the covid-19 pandemic in mainland France.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for real-time monitoring of diseases evolution to rapidly adapt restrictive measures. This prospective multicentric study aimed at investigating radiological markers of COVID-19-related emergency activity as global estimators of pandemic evolution in France. We incorporated two sources of data from March to November 2020: an open-source epidemiological dataset, collecting daily hospitalisations, intensive care unit admissions, hospital deaths and discharges, and a teleradiology dataset corresponding to the weekly number of CT-scans performed in 65 emergency centres and interpreted remotely. CT-scans specifically requested for COVID-19 suspicion were monitored. Teleradiological and epidemiological time series were aligned. Their rela

SUBMITTER: Crombe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8295630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature