Fig 1.
All chest examinations of patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing additional workload due to hygienic measures were included.
Table 1.
Patient demographics.
Table 2.
Case data.
Fig 2.
Cosinor models of the demand for COVID-19 related chest imaging.
Number of requests for chest imaging of outpatients (a) and in-patients (b) with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) per hour of the day. The dotted lines indicate the acrophases at 7:29 pm (a) and 12:51 pm (b).
Table 3.
Temporal distribution of requests for COVID-19 related chest imaging and results of the multinomial logistic regression model.
Fig 3.
Relative demand for COVID-19 related chest imaging of outpatients and relative number of regional COVID-19 cases.
Relative demand for chest imaging of outpatients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) per day and the relative number of confirmed regional COVID-19 cases per day displayed as the percentage of the total number of requests for imaging (n = 551) and reported cases (n = 5053) between February 27th 2020 and May 27th 2020.
Fig 4.
Relative demand for COVID-19 related chest imaging of in-patients and relative number of regional COVID-19 cases.
Relative demand for chest imaging of in-patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) per day and the relative number of confirmed regional COVID-19 cases per day displayed as the percentage of the total number of requests for imaging (n = 551) and reported cases (n = 5053) between February 27th 2020 and May 27th 2020.