A large-scale clinical validation study using nCapp cloud plus terminal by frontline doctors for the rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 and COVID-19 pneumonia in China

Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic acute infectious disease, especially with the features of possible asymptomatic carriers and high contagiousness. Currently, it is difficult to quickly identify asymptomatic cases or COVID-19 patients with pneumonia due to limited access to reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) nucleic acid tests and CT scans. Goal: This study aimed to develop a scientific and rigorous clinical diagnostic tool for the rapid prediction of COVID-19 cases based on a COVID-19 clinical case database in China, and to assist doctors to efficiently and precisely diagnose asymptomatic COVID-19 patients and cases who had a false-negative RT-PCR test result. Methods: With online consent, and the approval of the ethics committee of Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University (NCT04275947, B2020-032R) to ensure that patient privacy is protected, clinical information has been uploaded in real-time through the New Coronavirus Intelligent Auto-diagnostic Assistant Application of cloud plus terminal (nCapp) by doctors from different cities (Wuhan, Shanghai, Harbin, Dalian, Wuxi, Qingdao, Rizhao, and Bengbu) during the COVID-19 outbreak in China. By quality control and data anonymization on the platform, a total of 3,249 cases from COVID-19 high-risk groups were collected. The effects of different diagnostic factors were ranked based on the results from a single factor analysis, with 0.05 as the significance level for factor inclusion and 0.1 as the significance level for factor exclusion. Independent variables were selected by the step-forward multivariate logistic regression analysis to obtain the probability model. Findings: We applied the statistical method of a multivariate regression model to the training dataset (1,624 cases) and developed a prediction model for COVID-19 with 9 clinical indicators that are accessible. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) for the model was 0.88 (95% CI: 0.86, 0.89) in the training dataset and 0.84 (95% CI: 0.82, 0.86) in the validation dataset (1,625 cases). Discussion: With the assistance of nCapp, a mobile-based diagnostic tool developed from a large database that we collected from COVID-19 high-risk groups in China, frontline doctors can rapidly identify asymptomatic patients and avoid misdiagnoses of cases with false-negative RT-PCR results..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

Clinical eHealth - 5(2022), Seite 79-90

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dawei Yang [VerfasserIn]
Tao Xu [VerfasserIn]
Xun Wang [VerfasserIn]
Deng Chen [VerfasserIn]
Ziqiang Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Lichuan Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Jie Liu [VerfasserIn]
Kui Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Li Bai [VerfasserIn]
Yong Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Lin Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Lin Tong [VerfasserIn]
Chaomin Wu [VerfasserIn]
Yaoli Wang [VerfasserIn]
Chunling Dong [VerfasserIn]
Maosong Ye [VerfasserIn]
Yu Xu [VerfasserIn]
Zhenju Song [VerfasserIn]
Hong Chen [VerfasserIn]
Jing Li [VerfasserIn]
Jiwei Wang [VerfasserIn]
Fei Tan [VerfasserIn]
Hai Yu [VerfasserIn]
Jian Zhou [VerfasserIn]
Chunhua Du [VerfasserIn]
Hongqing Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Yu Shang [VerfasserIn]
Linian Huang [VerfasserIn]
Jianping Zhao [VerfasserIn]
Yang Jin [VerfasserIn]
Charles A. Powell [VerfasserIn]
Jinming Yu [VerfasserIn]
Yuanlin Song [VerfasserIn]
Chunxue Bai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Infectious disease
Medicine
R
SARS-CoV-2
Smartphone
WeChat

doi:

10.1016/j.ceh.2022.07.004

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DOAJ001102184