The Burden of Disease due to COVID-19 (BoCO-19): A study protocol for a secondary analysis of surveillance data in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Caoimhe CawleyJonila GabraniAleksandar StevanovicRakhat AidaralievMehtap Çakmak BarsbaySeila Cilovic LagarijaKairat DavletovTolkun DjamangulovaNatalya GlushkovaMatthias An der HeidenPranvera Kaçaniku-GungaMaia KereselidzeBesfort KryeziuKhorolsuren LkhagvasurenSamir MehdiyevDariia OharovaDiloram SadikkhodjayevaMilena Santric MilicevicMilica StanisicStela StojisavljevicGulcan TecirliNatasa TerzicAnnelene WenglerAlexander Rommelnull nullPublished in: PloS one (2023)
BoCO-19 serves as a collaborative platform in order to build international capacity for the calculation of burden of disease indicators, and to support national experts in the analysis and interpretation of country-specific data, including their strengths and weaknesses. Challenges include inherent differences in data collection and reporting systems between countries, as well as assumptions that have to be made during the calculation process.