Usefulness of the epidemiological survey and RT-PCR test in pre-surgical patients for assessing the risk of COVID-19

MeSH terms

• Adult
• Aged
• Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
• COVID-19
• COVID-19 Testing
• Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
• Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
• Epidemiological Monitoring*
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Pandemics
• Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
• Practice Guidelines as Topic*
• Preoperative Care / standards*
• Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / standards*
• Risk Assessment / standards
• SARS-CoV-2
• Surveys and Questionnaires