Utility of chest radiography on admission for initial triaging of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients

Shuvro H Roy Choudhury; Praveen Kumar Shahi; Shubham Sharma; Raja Dhar

doi:10.1183/23120541.00357-2020

Utility of chest radiography on admission for initial triaging of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Aug 31;6(3):00357-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00357-2020. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Shuvro H Roy Choudhury¹, Praveen Kumar Shahi², Shubham Sharma², Raja Dhar²

Affiliations

¹ Radiology, Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India.
² Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care, Fortis Hospital, Kolkata, India.

Abstract

A Likert score based on chest radiography of symptomatic patients of #COVID19 can be used as a diagnostic and triaging tool in the emergency room to help physicians identify patients with likelihood of COVID-19 and triage them appropriately https://bit.ly/3gDxzDK.