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. 2020 Jun;214(6):1206-1210.
doi: 10.2214/AJR.20.22927. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Déjà Vu or Jamais Vu? How the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Experience Influenced a Singapore Radiology Department's Response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic

Lionel Tim-Ee Cheng  1 , Lai Peng Chan  1 , Ban Hock Tan  2 , Robert Chun Chen  1 , Kiang Hiong Tay  3 , Moi Lin Ling  4 , Bien Soo Tan  5
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Déjà Vu or Jamais Vu? How the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Experience Influenced a Singapore Radiology Department's Response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic

Lionel Tim-Ee Cheng et al. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE. This article shares the ground operational perspective of how a tertiary hospital radiology department in Singapore is responding to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. This same department was also deeply impacted by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003. CONCLUSION. Though similar to SARS, the COVID-19 outbreak has several differences. We share how lessons from 2003 are applied and modified in our ongoing operational response to this evolving novel pathogen.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS; infection control; novel coronavirus; outbreak; radiology operations.

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