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. 2020 Oct 15;30(3):030402.
doi: 10.11613/BM.2020.030402. Epub 2020 Aug 5.

Laboratory markers included in the Corona Score can identify false negative results on COVID-19 RT-PCR in the emergency room

Roberto Assandri  1 , Ciro Canetta  2 , Giovanni Viganò  3 , Elisabetta Buscarini  4 , Alessandro Scartabellati  5 , Alessandro Montanelli  6
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Laboratory markers included in the Corona Score can identify false negative results on COVID-19 RT-PCR in the emergency room

Roberto Assandri et al. Biochem Med (Zagreb). .

Abstract

After December 2019 outbreak in China, the novel Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has very quickly overflowed worldwide. Infection causes a clinical syndrome encompassing a wide range of clinical features, from asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic course to acute respiratory distress and death. In a very recent work we preliminarily observed that several laboratory tests have been shown as characteristically altered in COVID-19. We aimed to use the Corona score, a validated point-based algorithm to predict the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in patients presenting at the Emergency rooms. This approach combines chest images-relative score and several laboratory parameters to classify emergency room patients. Corona score accuracy was satisfactory, increasing the detection of positive patients' rate.

Keywords: COVID-19; Corona score; Emergency room; RT-PCR; laboratory markers.

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Potential conflict of interest: None declared.

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