Diagnostic accuracy of autoverification and guidance system for COVID-19 RT-PCR results.

"Declarations Ethics approvalThis study was approved by the Human Medical Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College (No. B-2022–049), and it was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (No. ChiCTR2200059709). Consent to participateOwing to the retrospective design of the study, informed consent was waived by the institutional review board, because all identifying details of the participants were removed before computational analysis. Consent for publicationAll authors have approved the manuscript and agreed with submission to EPMA J. Competing interestThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interest The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by Special Major Application Research Project for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Universities, Department of Education of Guangdong, Provincial Program of Innovation and Strengthening School, Guangdong, China (Grant number: 2020KZDZX1093) and Special Project for COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment of Shantou Science and Technology Bureau, Guangdong, China (Grant number: 2020–1-61)."