Managing high clinical suspicion COVID-19 inpatients with negative RT-PCR: a pragmatic and limited role for thoracic CT

Thorax. 2020 Jul;75(7):537-538. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214916. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Authors

Aniket N Tavare¹, Aaron Braddy², Simon Brill², Hannah Jarvis², Anand Sivaramakrishnan³, Joseph Barnett¹, Dean D Creer², Samanjit S Hare⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Free London NHS FoundationTrust, London, UK.
³ Department of Microbiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK samhare@nhs.net.

No abstract available

Keywords: imaging/CT MRI etc; infection control; viral infection.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Clinical Protocols
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Hospitalization
Humans
Pandemics
Patient Selection
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction*
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*