Improving COVID-19 Disease Severity Surveillance Measures: Statewide Implementation Experience.
Shira DoronPaul A MonachCatherine M BrownWestyn Branch-EllimanPublished in: Annals of internal medicine (2023)
Adding a single data element to mandated reporting to estimate the frequency of severe COVID-19 in hospitalized patients was feasible and provided actionable information for health authorities and policy makers. Updates to surveillance methods are necessary to match data collection with public health response needs.