Symptom-based screening for COVID-19 in health care workers: The importance of fever.
(2020) Journal of Hospital Infection — Vol. 105, n° 3, p. 428-429 (2020)
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- (en) In December, 2019, a new acute respiratory syndrome appeared in Wuhan, China. The disease, later named COVID-19, is caused by a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Clinical presentation is mild in about 80%, moderate to severe in 15% and critical in 5% of cases.The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, fatigue, muscle pain, and dry cough. Some patients may exhibit nasal congestion, chills, sore throat or diarrhoea . In March 2020, interim Belgian guidelines recommended the screening only of symptomatic patients (fever and respiratory symptoms) who required hospitalization as well as of all healthcare workers (HCWs) with fever and respiratory symptoms. We assessed the impact of using fever as a predictor for positivity of SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). [...]
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Yombi, J. C., De Greef, J., Marsin, A.-S., Simon, A., Rodriguez-Villalobos, H., Penaloza-Baeza, A., & Belkhir, L. (2020). Symptom-based screening for COVID-19 in health care workers: The importance of fever. Journal of Hospital Infection, 105(3), 428-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.05.028 (Original work published 2020)