Ruling out COVID-19 by chest CT at emergency admission when prevalence is low: the prospective, observational SCOUT study.
Ulf K TeichgräberAmer MalouhiMaja IngwersenRotraud NeumannMarina ReljicStefanie Deinhardt-EmmerBettina LöfflerWilhelm BehringerJan-Christoph LewejohannAndreas StallmachPhilipp ReukenPublished in: Respiratory research (2021)
At a low prevalence of COVID-19, chest CT could be used as a complement to repeated RT-PCR testing for early COVID-19 exclusion in adults with suspected infection before referral to hospital's general wards. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04357938 April 22, 2020.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
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- emergency department
- computed tomography
- risk factors
- healthcare
- image quality
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- dual energy
- primary care
- clinical trial
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- public health
- randomized controlled trial
- study protocol
- pulmonary embolism
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- cross sectional
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