Monitoring COVID-19 in Belgian general practice: A tool for syndromic surveillance based on electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 may initially manifest as flu-like symptoms. As such, general practitioners (GPs) will likely to play an important role in monitoring the pandemic through syndromic surveillance.

Objectives

To present a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance tool in Belgian general practices.

Methods

We performed a nationwide observational prospective study in Belgian general practices. The surveillance tool extracted the daily entries of diagnostic codes for COVID-19 and associated conditions (suspected or confirmed COVID-19, acute respiratory infection and influenza-like illness) from electronic medical records. We calculated the 7-day rolling average for these diagnoses and compared them with data from two other Belgian population-based sources (laboratory-confirmed ne

SUBMITTER: Vos B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10776082 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature