Rapid creation of a website to produce educational and clinical support resources for global use during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Hogg, Peter and Holmes, Ken (2022) Rapid creation of a website to produce educational and clinical support resources for global use during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Radiography, 28 (S1). S3-S8.

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Abstract

It became clear at the onset of the pandemic that radiography could play an important role in diagnosing and staging COVID-19. The key modality would be mobile chest radiography. However, at the onset of the pandemic, no literature existed to indicate whether or not chest X-ray imaging could be used effectively to diagnose or exclude COVID-19. This article explains how a website was created, at speed, during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Containing holistic information, the website helped enable rapid redeployment of radiographers onto the frontline where chest X-ray imaging was needed. It aimed to help train radiographers take (and interpret) chest radiographs in high-risk areas that contained large numbers of COVID-19 patients. Within one year, the website had been used in 157 countries. This article documents the approach taken to create the website and suggestions are made about how, in the future, a rapid approach could be achieved to create other websites – should an international crisis occur again.

Item Type:	Article
Journal / Publication Title:	Radiography
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1532-2831
Departments:	Institute of Health > Medical Sciences
Additional Information:	This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2023 10:03
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 14:01
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/6852

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