A5052680850- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Healthcare Systems and Public Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
Public Health Scotland
2021-2024
Government of the United Kingdom
2023
Background In early 2020, the I-MOVE-COVID-19 hospital surveillance system was adapted from an existing influenza to include hospitalised COVID-19 cases. Aim To describe trends in demographic and clinical characteristics of cases across Europe during first 2 years pandemic, identify associations between sex, age chronic conditions with admission intensive care or high dependency units (ICU/HDU) in-hospital mortality. Methods We pooled pseudonymised data all 11 sites nine European countries,...
Abstract Background A pre-existing, well-established European influenza surveillance network known as I-MOVE enabled the rapid implementation of a multi-country COVID-19 hospital for hospitalized cases in early 2020. This included 257 hospitals 11 sites across nine countries. We aimed to identify whether objectives were relevant public health actions, system met its objectives, where and how shortcomings could be improved, was sustainable. Methods identified six key attributes (meeting...
To set up and evaluate a new surveillance system for severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) in Scotland.
Several SARS-CoV-2 variants that evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic have appeared to differ in severity, based on analyses of single-country datasets. With decreased testing and sequencing, international collaborative studies will become increasingly important for timely assessment severity newly emerged variants. The Joint WHO Regional Office Europe ECDC Infection Severity Working Group was formed produce pilot a standardised study protocol estimate relative variant case-severity settings...