Mimics and chameleons of COVID-19: patient presentation and accuracy of triage during the first wave

CONCLUSION: The quantitative assessment of COVID-19 mimics and chameleons showed a high prevalence of mimics. Clinical differentiation between true positives and false positives is not feasible due to largely overlapping symptoms. Prevalence of chameleons was very low.PMID:34874013 | DOI:10.4414/smw.2021.w30103

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - December 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Andrea S Jauslin Noemi R Simon Nina L Giudici Marco Rueegg Tobias Zimmermann Matthias Diebold Sarah Tschudin-Sutter Raphael Twerenbold Christian H Nickel Roland Bingisser Source Type: research