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. 2021 Mar 16;9(1):E261–E270. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200290

Table 2:

Clinical screening criteria

Clinical screening criteria Period 1 Period 2
Complaints
  • Fever

  • Shortness of breath

  • Respiratory distress

  • Respiratory symptoms

  • Cough

  • Influenza or flu-like illness

Not applicable*
Discharge diagnoses
  • Anosmia

  • ARDS

  • Asthma

  • Bronchitis

  • Chronic obstructive lung disease

  • Confirmed case of COVID-19

  • Confirmed COVID-19

  • Coronavirus

  • Cough, NYD

  • COVID

  • COVID-19

  • FUO

  • Fever, NYD

  • Flu-like illness

  • Influenza-like illness

  • Pharyngitis

  • Pneumonia

  • Pulmonary edema/congestive heart failure

  • Pulmonary embolism

  • Respiratory distress

  • Respiratory disease, NOS/NYD

  • Sepsis, NYD

  • SOB

  • Sinusitis

  • Suspected case of COVID-19

  • Suspected COVID-19

  • Upper respiratory infection

  • Upper respiratory tract infection

  • Viral pneumonia

  • Anosmia

  • ARDS

  • Confirmed case of COVID-19

  • Confirmed COVID-19

  • Coronavirus

  • Cough, NYD

  • COVID

  • COVID-19

  • FUO

  • Fever, NYD

  • Flu-like illness

  • Influenza-like illness

  • Pneumonia

  • Respiratory distress

  • Respiratory disease, NOS

  • Sepsis, NYD

  • SOB

  • Viral pneumonia

Note: ARDS = adult respiratory distress syndrome, COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019, FUO = fever of unknown origin, NOS = not otherwise specified, NYD = not yet diagnosed, SOB = shortness of breath.

*

In period 2, screening by chief complaint should be avoided, unless the site cannot screen charts by discharge diagnosis.