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cord-322987-zv58s79r	Zali, Alireza	Correlation between Low-Dose Chest Computed Tomography and RT-PCR Results for the Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Report of 27824 Cases in Tehran, Iran	2020-09-21		.txt	text/plain	3226	157	48	In addition, our study provides further evidence for considering patients' socioeconomic status as an important risk factor for COVIDKeywords: COVID-19; computed tomography; RT-PCR; polymerase chain reaction; socioeconomic; correlation; diagnosis In this study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation between the number of daily positive chest CT scans and number of daily PCR-confirmed cases and COVID-19-related deaths in Tehran during a three-month period. Figure 2 shows the trend of total patients who underwent chest CT due to high clinical suspicion and also the trend of cases with positive CT scan in each specific hospital during this three-month period. The results of our study, along with the findings of previous reports, provide evidence for policymakers and healthcare leaders to consider low-dose chest CT as a safe, rapid and reliable diagnostic tool to for the detection of COVID-19, particularly in high-prevalent regions with constraint of resources such as insufficient SARS-CoV-2 molecular test kits.	./cache/cord-322987-zv58s79r.txt	./txt/cord-322987-zv58s79r.txt