Use of Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19: A WHO Rapid Advice Guide

Elie A Akl¹, Ivana Blažić¹, Sally Yaacoub¹+21

• ¹From the Department of Internal Medicine (E.A.A.), Clinical Research Institute (S.Y.), Department of Emergency Medicine (E.H.), and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (R.M.), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Clinical Hospital Centre Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia (I.B.); Paris Descartes University, Paris, France (G.F.); Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore (R.C.); Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (J.A.A.); Department of Imaging Informatics, Virtual University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (M.F.); L. Sacco, University Hospital, Milan, Italy (N.F.); WHO Patients for Patient Safety Program Advisory Group; Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan (H.J.); Department of Radiology, PUMC Hospital Beijing, Beijing, China (Z.Y.J.); Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology; Translational Pneumology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, member of the German Center of Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany (H.U.K.); Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Kampala, Uganda (M.K.); Departments of Radiology and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan/Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich (E.A.K.); Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY (J.P.K.); Imaging, Radiation Therapy and Oncohematology Department, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil (V.M.); Radiology Department, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya (R.N.); Radiology Department, CDI Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (M.S.); Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (P.B.S.); Imaging Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (M.U.); Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (C.Z.); Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, Radiation and Health Unit (E.v.D., M.d.R.P.), World Health Organization, 20 ave Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.