{"id":6284,"date":"2020-04-24T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:55:44","slug":"rapid-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infected-patients-at-the-emergency-department-using-routine-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/rapid-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infected-patients-at-the-emergency-department-using-routine-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients at the emergency department using routine testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This easy-to-use point-based algorithm, called the corona-score, uses laboratory parameters, demographic data and the chest X-ray\/CT of patients to rapidly evaluate an individual\u2019s risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the emergency department (ED).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The algorithm has a sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 96%, and could have important utility in EDs experiencing a shortage of RT-PCR testing materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kurstjens et al. (Apr 24, 2020). Rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients at the emergency department using routine testing. Pre-print downloaded Apr 24 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.20.20067512\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.20.20067512<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This easy-to-use point-based algorithm, called the corona-score, uses laboratory parameters, demographic data and the chest X-ray\/CT of patients to rapidly evaluate an individual\u2019s risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the emergency department (ED).\u00a0 The algorithm has a sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 96%, and could have important utility in EDs experiencing a shortage of RT-PCR&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/rapid-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infected-patients-at-the-emergency-department-using-routine-testing\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6284","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\/6284","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=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}