False-negative RT-PCR for COVID-19 and a diagnostic risk score: a retrospective cohort study among patients admitted to hospital

Objective To describe the characteristics and outcomes of patients with a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 and false-negative SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR), and develop and internally validate a diagnostic risk score to predict risk of COVID-19 (including RT-PCR-negative COVID-19) amon...

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Main Authors: Ashley Whittington, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Colin Kenneth Macleod, Sarah Ann Filson, Tumena Corrah, Victoria Parris, Miriam Harris, Rachel Tennant, Nidhi Vaid, Junko Takata, Sai Duraisingham, Nemi Gandy, Harmeet Chana, Alastair McGregor, Padmasayee Papineni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e047110.full