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. 2020 Aug 21;92(11):2412–2419. doi: 10.1002/jmv.25994

Table 1.

Discharge criteria for coronavirus disease

Items Details of discharge criteria Reference
RT‐PCR The interval of two consecutive negative real‐time RT‐PCR results from upper respiratory tract samples should be 24 to 96 h or longer. 6, 16, 18, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31
Imaging manifestations Improvements in lesion absorption observed by chest radiography or chest CT scan, including the following items: 6, 12, 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
  • (1)

    Reduction of GGO size;

  • (2)

    decrease of consolidation density;

  • (3)

    only fibrous stripes left.

Clinical features
  • (1)

    Essentially normal body temperature (ear temperature under 37.5℃) for 3‐7 d or longer.

 6, 12, 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31
  • (2)

    Normal blood oxygen saturation (>93%) without supplementary oxygen.

  • (3)

    Normal laboratory tests:

  • i)

    white cell counts,

  • i)

    platelet counts,

  • i)

    creatinine phosphokinase,

  • i)

    lactate dehydrogenase,

  • a)

    liver function tests,a

  • a)

    C reactive protein.

  • (4)

    Improvement of clinical symptoms.

For patients tapering corticosteroid Corticosteroids completely discontinued for more than 1 wk, with above conditions met. 16

Abbreviations: CT,  computed tomography; GGO ,  ground‐glass opacities; RT‐PCR, reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction.

a

Liver function tests include prothrombin time/international normalized ratio, activated partial thromboplastin time, albumin, bilirubin (direct and indirect), aspartate transaminase or serum glutamic‐oxaloacetic transaminase, and alanine transaminase or serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase.