The Dutch Data Warehouse, a multicenter and full-admission electronic health records database for critically ill COVID-19 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underlined the urgent need for reliable, multicenter, and full-admission intensive care data to advance our understanding of the course of the disease and investigate potential treatment strategies. In this study, we present the Dutch Data Warehouse (DDW), the first multicenter electronic health record (EHR) database with full-admission data from critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Methods

A nation-wide data sharing collaboration was launched at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. All hospitals in the Netherlands were asked to participate and share pseudonymized EHR data from adult critically ill COVID-19 patients. Data included patient demographics, clinical observations, administered medication, laborat

SUBMITTER: Fleuren LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8381710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature