Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning Tool to Rule Out COVID-19 Among Adults in the Emergency Department Using Routine Blood Tests: A Large, Multicenter, Real-World Study

• Main Authors: Plante, Timothy B (Author), Blau, Aaron M (Author), Berg, Adrian N (Author), Weinberg, Aaron S (Author), Jun, Ik C (Author), Tapson, Victor F (Author), Kanigan, Tanya S (Author), Adib, Artur B (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundConventional diagnosis of COVID-19 with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing (hereafter, PCR) is associated with prolonged time to diagnosis and significant costs to run the test. The SARS-CoV-2 virus might lead to characteristic patterns in the results of widel...