Updating the diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 "suspected case" and "confirmed case" is necessary

Yun-Yun Wang; Ying-Hui Jin; Xue-Qun Ren; Yi-Rong Li; Xiao-Chun Zhang; Xian-Tao Zeng; Xing-Huan Wang; Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University Novel Coronavirus Management and Research Team

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Updating the diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 "suspected case" and "confirmed case" is necessary

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Updated：2023-06-05

- Updating the diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 "suspected case" and "confirmed case" is necessary
- Military Medical Research Vol. 7, Issue 4, Pages: 507-509(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Center for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China.
  2.Institute of Evidence-Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation, Henan University, Kaifeng 475000, Henan, China.
  3.Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China.
  4.Leishenshan Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan 430200, Hubei, China.
  5.Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China.
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  * zengxiantao1128@163.com;
  wangxinghuan1965@163.com
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- DOI：10.1186/s40779-020-00245-9
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- Published：2020-12
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Wang et al.: Updating the diagnostic criteria of COVID-19 “suspected case” and “confirmed case” is necessary. Mil Med Res, 2020, 7: 17. DOI： 10.1186/s40779-020-00245-9.

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On 6 February 2020

our team had published a rapid advice guideline for diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection

and this guideline provided our experience and make well reference for fighting against this pandemic worldwide. However

the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new disease

our awareness and knowledge are gradually increasing based on the ongoing research findings and clinical practice experience; hence

the strategies of diagnosis and treatment are also continually updated. In this letter

we answered one comment on our guideline and provided the newest diagnostic criteria of "suspected case" and "confirmed case" according to the latest Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for COVID-19 (seventh version) that issued by the National Health Committee of the People's Republic of China.

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