Planning and coordination of the radiological response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the Singapore experience

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread fast and extensively around the world, with significant mortality and morbidity. As this is a respiratory infection, chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) are important imaging techniques in the work-up of this disease. Given its highly infecti...

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Autores principales: Tsou, I.Y.Y., Liew, C.J.Y., Tan, B.P., Chou, H., Wong, S.B.S., Loke, K.S.H., Quah, R.C.W., Tan, A.G.S., Tay, K.H.
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Publicado: The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32291080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.03.028
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author Tsou, I.Y.Y.
Liew, C.J.Y.
Tan, B.P.
Chou, H.
Wong, S.B.S.
Loke, K.S.H.
Quah, R.C.W.
Tan, A.G.S.
Tay, K.H.
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Liew, C.J.Y.
Tan, B.P.
Chou, H.
Wong, S.B.S.
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread fast and extensively around the world, with significant mortality and morbidity. As this is a respiratory infection, chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) are important imaging techniques in the work-up of this disease. Given its highly infectious nature, cross-infection within the healthcare setting and radiology departments needs to be addressed actively and prevented. We describe the response of radiology departments in Singapore to this pandemic, in terms of diagnosis, re-configuration of the department, re-organisation and segregation of staff, infection control, managerial, and leadership issues.
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spelling pubmed-71515332020-04-13 Planning and coordination of the radiological response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the Singapore experience Tsou, I.Y.Y. Liew, C.J.Y. Tan, B.P. Chou, H. Wong, S.B.S. Loke, K.S.H. Quah, R.C.W. Tan, A.G.S. Tay, K.H. Clin Radiol Article Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread fast and extensively around the world, with significant mortality and morbidity. As this is a respiratory infection, chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) are important imaging techniques in the work-up of this disease. Given its highly infectious nature, cross-infection within the healthcare setting and radiology departments needs to be addressed actively and prevented. We describe the response of radiology departments in Singapore to this pandemic, in terms of diagnosis, re-configuration of the department, re-organisation and segregation of staff, infection control, managerial, and leadership issues. The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-06 2020-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7151533/ /pubmed/32291080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.03.028 Text en © 2020 The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Tsou, I.Y.Y.
Liew, C.J.Y.
Tan, B.P.
Chou, H.
Wong, S.B.S.
Loke, K.S.H.
Quah, R.C.W.
Tan, A.G.S.
Tay, K.H.
Planning and coordination of the radiological response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the Singapore experience
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title_short Planning and coordination of the radiological response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: the Singapore experience
title_sort planning and coordination of the radiological response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic: the singapore experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32291080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.03.028
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