Imaging strategies used in emergency departments for the diagnostic workup of COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic: a multicenter retrospective cost-effectiveness analysis.

Fiche publication

Date publication

juin 2022

Journal

Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr OHANA Mickaël

Tous les auteurs :
Kepka S, Zarca K, Viglino D, Marjanovic N, Taheri O, Peyrony O, Desmettre T, Wilme V, Marx T, Muller J, Harscoat S, Le Borgne P, Bayle E, Lefebvre N, Hansmann Y, Fafi-Kremer S, Ohana M, Zaleski ID, Bilbault P

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35738321

Résumé

Emergency departments (EDs) were on the front line for the diagnostic workup of patients with COVID-19 like symptoms during the first wave. Chest imaging was the key to rapidly identifying COVID-19 before administering RT-PCR which was time-consuming. The objective of our study was to compare the costs and organizational benefits of triage strategies in ED during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.