Triaging patients in the outbreak of COVID-2019
- VernacularTitle:新型冠状病毒感染暴发中病人的分诊管理
- Author:
Guo-Qing HUANG
1
,
2
;
Wei-Qian ZENG
;
Wen-Bo WANG
;
Yan-Min SONG
;
Xiao-Ye MO
;
Jia LI
;
Ping WU
;
Ruo-Long WANG
;
Fang-Yi ZHOU
;
Jing WU
;
Bin YI
;
Zeng XIONG
;
Lu ZHOU
;
Fan-Qi WANG
;
Yang-Jing TIAN
;
Wen-Bao HU
;
Xia XU
;
Kai YUAN
;
Xiang-Min LI
;
Xin-Jian QIU
;
Jian QIU
;
Ai-Min WANG
Author Information
- Keywords: triage; infectious disease; coronavirus; COVID-19
- From: Chinese Journal of Infection Control 2023;22(3):295-303
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: In the outbreak of COVID-19,triage procedures based on epidemiology were implemented in a local hospital in Changsha to control the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and avoid healthcare-associated infection.This re-trospective study analyzed the data collected during the triage period and found that COVID-19 patients were en-riched 7 folds into the Section A designated for patients with obvious epidemiological history.On the other side,nearly triple amounts of visits were received at the Section B for patients without obvious epidemiological history.8 COVID-19 cases were spotted out of 247 suspected patients.More than 50％of the suspected patients were submi-tted to multiple rounds of nucleic acid analysis for SARS-CoV-2 infection.Of the 239 patients who were diagnosed as negative of the virus infection,188 were successfully revisited and none was reported as COVID-19 case.Of the 8 COVID-19 patients,3 were confirmed only after multiple rounds of nucleic acid analysis.Besides comorbidities,delayed sharing of epidemiological history added complexity to the diagnosis in practice.The triaging experience and strategy will be helpful for the control of infectious diseases in the future.
