The limited Sensitivity of Chest Computed Tomography Relative to Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infection: A Systematic Review on COVID-19 Diagnostics
Several studies suggest the sensitivity of chest CT is far greater than that of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) This systematic review aims to stratify studies as high or low risk of bias to determine the true sensitivity of CT. For chest CT, the mean sensitivity reported by biased studies was 94%. Difference between the sensitivities of CT and RT-PCR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infection.
