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Ruling Out COVID-19 by Chest CT at Emergency Admission to Prevent In-Hospital Spread When Prevalence is Low – The Prospective, Observational SCOUT Study
2021-12-14
Abstract excerpt
Background: It is essential to avoid admission of patients with undetected corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to hospitals’ general wards. Even repeated negative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) results do not rule-out COVID-19 with certainty. Therefore, we evaluated a rule-out strategy using chest computed tomography (CT) in adults suspected of COVID-19 being admitted to the emergency d...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e1250a47-f59b-59c7-add8-88c47978de06
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.3985390
