• Yu Shi, Xiangshi Wang, Gongbao Liu, Qirong Zhu, Jianshe Wang, Hui Yu, Chuanqing Wang, Libo Wang, Mingzhi Zhang, Lingen Zhang, Guoping Lu, Zhujin Lu, Jian Yu, Zhongwei Qiao, Ying Gu, Guomei Shen, Hong Xu, Mei Zeng, Xiaowen Zhai, and Guoying Huang.
• Division of Medical Administration, National Children's Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China.
• Ann Transl Med. 2020 Mar 1; 8 (5): 241.

BackgroundA recent cluster of pneumonia cases in China was caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We report the screening and diagnosis of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in our hospital.MethodsDeveloped a procedure for the identification of children cases with COVID-19 in outpatient and emergency department of our hospital, then we observed how this process works.Results(I) There were 56 cases considered suspected cases, and 10 cases were confirmed as COVID-19. (II) Of the 10 confirmed COVID-19 cases admitted in our hospital, 5 were males and 5 were females, aged from 7 months to 11 years, the average age is 6.0±4.2 years, 6 cases were mild pneumonia, the others were upper respiratory tract infection. (III) We followed up 68 patients in isolation at home until symptoms disappeared. Non were missed in the patient's first visit. The sensitivity of this method is 100% and the specificity is 71.3%.ConclusionsOur screening process works well, and it is also necessary to establish a screening network in the hospital.2020 Annals of Translational Medicine. All rights reserved.

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