Interim guidance for service recovery
- COVID-19 interim guidance on restarting elective work: Interventional radiology (image guided surgery) services (PDF) (Published 7 May 2020)
- COVID-19 interim guidance on restarting elective work (PDF) (Published 28 April 2020)
- Screening restart: Guidance for safe service provision during Covid-19 pandemic and post pandemic phase (link added 7 May 2020)
- AoMRC principles for reintroducing healthcare services (PDF) (Link added 21 May 2020)
Statements on the role of CT chest
- The role of CT in screening elective pre-operative patients (Published 14 May 2020)
- The role of CT chest in patients presenting acutely and requiring an abdominal CT (Published 27 March 2020)
- The role of CT in patients suspected with COVID-19 infection (Published 12 March 2020)
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- RCR statement on personal protective equipment (PPE) (Published 1 May)
- Personal protective equipment advice for imaging departments and teams (PDF) (Published 14 April)
Other guidance
- Information technology requirements for homeworking during the coronavirus pandemic
- Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with the radiology reporting workflow (RIS and PACS): Guidance on implementation of AI brought in during the COVID-19 pandemic
- RCR advice on non-urgent and cancer imaging during the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 discussion forum
- Clinical radiology coronavirus (COVID-19) discussion forum (member login required)
Other sources of information
- NICE COVID-19 rapid guideline: arranging planned care in hospitals and diagnostic services (Published 27 July 2020)
- WHO rapid advice guide on use of chest imaging in COVID-19
- The British Society of Thoracic Imaging (BSTI) is collating emerging UK resources on COVID-19 imaging, including reporting templates, lung ultrasound guidance and a dedicated COVID-19 image database
Journal articles
The following international academic resources may be of interest to clinical radiologists:
- A national UK audit for diagnostic accuracy of preoperative CT chest in emergency and elective surgery during COVID-19 pandemic
- Clinical Radiology journal COVID-19 resources
- European Journal of Radiology COVID-19 resources
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) COVID-19 resources
- RSNA Journals: COVID-19 resources
- American College of Radiology (ACR) COVID-19 resources
- Journal of the ACR:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: what the department of radiology should know (link added on 13 March 2020)
- American Journal of Roentgenology:
- The Lancet:
- Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study (link added on 13 March 2020)
- COVID-19 pneumonia: what has CT taught us? (link added on 13 March 2020)
- European Radiology
- CT image visual quantitative evaluation and clinical classification of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (link added on 31 March 2020)
- Chest CT manifestations of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pictorial review (link added on 31 March 2020)
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