Proposal of COVID-19 Clinical Risk Score for the management of suspected COVID-19 cases: a case control study

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 858 - 11
• Main Authors: Nakakubo, Sho, Suzuki, Masaru, Kamada, Keisuke, Yamashita, Yu, Nakamura, Junichi, Horii, Hiroshi, Sato, Kazuki, Matsumoto, Munehiro, Abe, Yuki, Tsuji, Kosuke, Ishiguro, Nobuhisa, Nasuhara, Yasuyuki, Konno, Satoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 18.11.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Asymptomatic; Blood; Case-Control Studies; Clinical score; Computed tomography; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - virology; COVID-19 Testing; CT imaging; Data collection; Decision making; Diagnostic systems; Disease transmission; Edema; Eosinophil; Evaluation; Female; Fever; Health risk assessment; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Japan - epidemiology; Laboratories; Leukocyte Count; Leukocytes; Leukocytes (eosinophilic); Male; Medical protocols; Medical referrals; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Middle Aged; Olfaction; Patients; Physicians; Pneumonia; Polymerase chain reaction; Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods; Procalcitonin; Procalcitonin - blood; Research Design; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Risk Assessment - methods; Risk management; SARS-CoV-2 - genetics; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Smell; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; Viral diseases; White blood cell; Young Adult; Japan; United States > US; COVID-19; CT imaging; Polymerase chain reaction test; Procalcitonin; Clinical score; Eosinophil; White blood cell

No clinical scoring system has yet been established to estimate the likelihood of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and determine the suitability of diagnostic testing in suspected COVID-19 patients. This was a single-center, retrospective, observational study of patients with suspected COVID-19 and co...