A World Health Organization (WHO) rapid advice guide on the use of chest imaging in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 was published today in the journal Radiology.
The rapid guide includes three diagnosis recommendations and four management recommendations covering patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 with different levels of disease severity, throughout the care pathway from outpatient facility or hospital entry to home discharge. It also offers considerations about implementation, monitoring and evaluation and identifies research needs.
This guide is primarily intended for health professionals involved in the diagnosis of COVID-19 and in the management of COVID-19 patients, but can also benefit hospital managers and planners, policymakers, hospital architects, biomedical engineers, medical physicists, logistics staff, and control officers involved in water/sanitation and infection prevention.
