Fig 1.
Selection of the outpatient cohort presented as a flowchart.
Table 1.
Patient demographic and clinical characteristics.
Fig 2.
Selection of the inpatient cohort presented as a flowchart.
Table 2.
Patient demographic and clinical characteristics by clinical suspicion of COVID-19 in inpatients (A) and outpatients (B).
Three patients in the inpatient cohort could not be classified. ‘Not suspected’: deemed by the clinician as non-compatible with COVID-19 disease or were diagnosed with another acute disease; ‘Not excluded’: no other diagnosis recorded explaining their current symptoms, and COVID-19 disease could not be excluded. ‘High suspicion’: physician in charge of the treatment recorded the suspicion on clinical grounds to the electronic patient record, OR the patient fulfilled a set of pre-defined clinical and exposure criteria (see Methods); ‘Laboratory confirmed’: tested positive from the first sample taken or with repeated testing with SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR.
Table 3.
Sensitivity calculations for the first SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test.
Fig 3.
Clinical SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR sensitivity estimates in the laboratory confirmed, and in the laboratory confirmed and high suspicion group combined, presented according to delay (days) from symptom onset to sampling.