International Journal of Nursing Research

Objective: To explore the value of nucleic acid detection of novel coronavirus in epidemic prevention and control. Methods: A total of 100 fever outpatients in our hospital from January 2021 to May 2021 were selected as the research objects. Chest CT detection and nucleic acid detection were performed, and patients were tested twice by the two technologies. Results: At the first examination, the positive rate of chest CT was 25.0%（25/100）, and the positive rate of nucleic acid was 1.0% (1/100). In the second test, the positive rate of chest CT was 5.0%（5/100）, and the positive rate of nucleic acid was 0.0% (0/100). Conclusion: nucleic acid detection screening novel coronavirus, high accuracy and specificity, low false positive rate, reduce the possibility of error detection waste of medical resources, to a certain extent, can avoid the secondary transmission, reduce the nosocomial cross infection risk, will help the doctor for a line of epidemic patients to make an accurate diagnosis, and take the corresponding treatment and isolation measures.

Novel coronavirus; Nucleic acid detection; Epidemic prevention and control; The value of