Cohort study protocol of the Brazilian collaborative research network on COVID-19: strengthening WHO global data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in low-income countries were faced with a triple challenge. First, a large number of patients required hospitalisation because of the infection's more severe symptoms. Second, there was a lack of systematic and broad testing policies for early identification of cases. Third, there were weaknesses in the integration of information systems, which led to the need to search for available information from the hospital information systems. Accordingly, it is also important to state that relevant aspects of COVID-19's natural history had not yet been fully clarified. The aim of this research protocol is to present the strategies of a Brazilian network of hospitals to perform systematised data collection on COVID-19 through the WHO platfor

SUBMITTER: Anschau F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638748 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature