{"id":6252,"date":"2021-03-09T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:17:09","slug":"performance-of-national-covid-19-symptom-checkers-a-comparative-case-simulation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/performance-of-national-covid-19-symptom-checkers-a-comparative-case-simulation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of National COVID-19 \u2018Symptom Checkers\u2019: A Comparative Case Simulation Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Using simulated patients designed to have signs and symptoms consistent with typical COVID-19 presentations as well as patients with conditions that can mimic COVID-19 (e.g. sepsis and bacterial pneumonia), the CDC Coronavirus Symptom Checker only successfully triaged 38% of cases to seek further health assessment. In contrast, the corresponding symptom checkers used in the UK, Japan, and Singapore triaged 44%, 77%, and 88% of cases to healthcare contact, respectively. Both the US and UK symptom checkers consistently failed to identify severe COVID-19, bacterial pneumonia, and sepsis, triaging such cases to stay home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Mansab et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). Performance of National COVID-19 \u2018Symptom Checkers\u2019: A Comparative Case Simulation Study. BMJ Health &amp; Care Informatics. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjhci-2020-100187\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjhci-2020-100187<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using simulated patients designed to have signs and symptoms consistent with typical COVID-19 presentations as well as patients with conditions that can mimic COVID-19 (e.g. sepsis and bacterial pneumonia), the CDC Coronavirus Symptom Checker only successfully triaged 38% of cases to seek further health assessment. In contrast, the corresponding symptom checkers used in the UK,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/performance-of-national-covid-19-symptom-checkers-a-comparative-case-simulation-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,194,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-screening","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}