{"id":4515,"date":"2020-02-20T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:21:47","slug":"sensitivity-of-chest-ct-for-covid-19-comparison-to-rt-pcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/sensitivity-of-chest-ct-for-covid-19-comparison-to-rt-pcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitivity of Chest CT for COVID-19: Comparison to RT-PCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fang et al. investigated sensitivity of chest CT for COVID-19 in early diagnosis of disease. RT-PCR was used as gold standard and were conducted using throat swabs (45 patients) or sputum samples (6 patients) of 51 patients. Sensitivity of chest CT was greater than that of RT-PCR (98% vs 71%, respectively, p&lt;.001). Limitation of RT-PCR as diagnostic tool is described.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fang et al. (Feb 19, 2020) Sensitivity of Chest CT for COVID-19: Comparison to RT-PCR. Radiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1148\/radiol.2020200432\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1148\/radiol.2020200432<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fang et al. investigated sensitivity of chest CT for COVID-19 in early diagnosis of disease. RT-PCR was used as gold standard and were conducted using throat swabs (45 patients) or sputum samples (6 patients) of 51 patients. Sensitivity of chest CT was greater than that of RT-PCR (98% vs 71%, respectively, p&lt;.001). Limitation of RT-PCR&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/20\/sensitivity-of-chest-ct-for-covid-19-comparison-to-rt-pcr\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}