2020
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-020-00505-z
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Rapid establishment of a national surveillance of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Belgium

Abstract: Background In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, caused by a novel coronavirus, it was of great importance to rapidly collect as much accurate information as possible in order to characterize the public health threat and support the health authorities in its management. Hospital-based surveillance is paramount to monitor the severity of a disease in the population. Methods Two separate surveillance systems, a Surge Capacity survey and a Clinical survey, were set up to collect complementary data on COVID-19 fr… Show more

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“…This study was based on the national clinical surveillance of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 implemented by Sciensano, the Belgian Institute of Health, and supported by the Federal Health Ministry, in order to obtain a minimal health-related dataset for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 admitted to Belgian hospitals. Details on the surveillance program have been published [10] . The clinical surveillance program was applied to all Belgian hospitals/ICUs; nearly 72% of them contributed to the data collection [10] .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This study was based on the national clinical surveillance of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 implemented by Sciensano, the Belgian Institute of Health, and supported by the Federal Health Ministry, in order to obtain a minimal health-related dataset for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 admitted to Belgian hospitals. Details on the surveillance program have been published [10] . The clinical surveillance program was applied to all Belgian hospitals/ICUs; nearly 72% of them contributed to the data collection [10] .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Details on the surveillance program have been published [10] . The clinical surveillance program was applied to all Belgian hospitals/ICUs; nearly 72% of them contributed to the data collection [10] . Available ICU beds in Belgium before pandemics were 2000 (i.e.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Belgian hospitals are obliged to report the daily number of new hospitalizations to the Scientific Institute of Public Health, Belgium (Sciensano), which are made publicly available through an online platform [13]. Age-specific hospitalization data were collected through the clinical surveillance database of COVID-19 hospitalized patients [14]. This database is an ongoing multicenter registry collecting information on hospital admission related to COVID-19 infection.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Patient-specific characteristics are collected through two online questionnaires: one related to admission and one related to discharge. As the reporting is strongly recommended by the Belgian Risk Management Group, the reporting coverage is high including more than 70% of all hospitalized COVID-19 cases during the first wave [14]. Based on this information, the weekly age distribution of hospitalized cases (see Figure D1 in Appendix D) is derived such that the total daily incidence of hospitalizations is transformed to be age-specific.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Belgian national public health research institute (Sciensano) collected and aggregated COVID-19 hospitalisation data according to an established hospital surveillance protocol [ 13 ]. Although some data are available at the municipality level, other important data sets were only collected per hospital ( n = 103).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%