Establishing Classifiers With Clinical Laboratory Indicators to Distinguish COVID-19 From Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Retrospective Cohort Study.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
PMID: 33534722

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The initial symptoms of patients with COVID-19 are very much like those of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP); it is difficult to distinguish COVID-19 from CAP with clinical symptoms and imaging examination.

Authors

  • Wanfa Dai
    Department of Respiration, Gong An County People's Hospital, Jingzhou, China.
  • Pei-Feng Ke
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Zhen-Zhen Li
    Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Qi-Zhen Zhuang
    Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Wei Huang
    Shaanxi Institute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072 Xi'an, China.
  • Yi Wang
    Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai, China.
  • Yujuan Xiong
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Xian-Zhang Huang
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.

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