Evaluation of visual triage for screening of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus patients
dc.contributor.author | Alfaraj, S. H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Al-Tawfiq, J. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gautret, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Alenazi, M. G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Asiri, A. Y. | |
dc.contributor.author | Memish, Z. A. | |
dc.contributor.department | Medicine, School of Medicine | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-27T19:58:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-27T19:58:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in September 2012 in Saudi Arabia had attracted the attention of the global health community. In 2017 the Saudi Ministry of Health released a visual triage system with scoring to alert healthcare workers in emergency departments (EDs) and haemodialysis units for the possibility of occurrence of MERS-CoV infection. We performed a retrospective analysis of this visual score to determine its sensitivity and specificity. The study included all cases from 2014 to 2017 in a MERS-CoV referral centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the study period there were a total of 2435 suspected MERS cases. Of these, 1823 (75%) tested negative and the remaining 25% tested positive for MERS-CoV by PCR assay. The application of the visual triage score found a similar percentage of MERS-CoV and non–MERS-CoV patients, with each score from 0 to 11. The percentage of patients with a cutoff score of ≥4 was 75% in patients with MERS-CoV infection and 85% in patients without MERS-CoV infection (p 0.0001). The sensitivity and specificity of this cutoff score for MERS-CoV infection were 74.1% and 18.6%, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of the scoring system were low, and further refinement of the score is needed for better prediction of MERS-CoV infection. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Alfaraj, S. H., Al-Tawfiq, J. A., Gautret, P., Alenazi, M. G., Asiri, A. Y., & Memish, Z. A. (2018). Evaluation of visual triage for screening of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus patients. New microbes and new infections, 26, 49-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2018.08.008 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/22653 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1016/j.nmni.2018.08.008 | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | New Microbes and New Infections | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.source | Publisher | en_US |
dc.subject | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus | en_US |
dc.subject | Saudi Arabia | en_US |
dc.subject | visual triage | en_US |
dc.title | Evaluation of visual triage for screening of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus patients | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |