Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the selection of chest imaging modalities and reporting systems: a survey of Italian radiologists.

The choice to use chest CT during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly influenced by the geographical area in which the survey participants worked, with an increasing trend from Northern to Southern Italy and the Islands ( p < 0.001) (Table 2 ).

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The desire to change the diagnostic method (from CXR ± LUS to chest CT or vice versa) used for the monitoring of COVID-19 pneumonia was significantly influenced by the number of patients hospitalized for SARS-CoV2 infection (with a decreasing trend from facilities treating fewer than 50 patients to hospitals treating more than 500 patients) ( p = 0.021).

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