The Relation Between Chest X-Ray (CXR) and RT-PCR in COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized at Dustira Hospital Ilma Fiddiyanti, Siska Telly Pratiwi, Syifa Ainun Rahman
Medical Faculty, Jenderal Achmad Yani University
Abstract
Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-caused by infection of RNA virus from Coronaviridae family- can be manifest as mild to severe disease. Nowadays, CXR and rRT-PCR are mostly used additional examination to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19. The objective of this study is to determine relation between CXR and rRT-PCR on COVID-19 patients. This is an analytic observational study with cross sectional approach using secondary data from medical record of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Dustira Hospital during March - December 2020. There are 47 patients whose match inclusion and exclusion criteria from 51 sample that successfully gathered. Statistical analysis is performed using chi-square test. Basic characterized of this population study showed male predomination (76,60%) with more than half patient aged between 20 - 39 years old (51,10%). CXR result of forty-one patients (87.33%) reflect COVID-19 specific feature. Most patients have rRT-PCR with positive result (89,36%). Chi-square test showed no significant relation between CXR and rRT-PCR result. This condition can be happened because the patient truly doesn^t get infected with SARS-Cov-2 or may be their test giving false negative result.
