Hospital-based COVID-19 registry: Design and implementation. Colombian experience
Sarita Rodriguez,
Tania M. Guzmán,
Eric Tafurt,
Estefanía Beltrán,
Andrés Castro,
Fernando Rosso,
Sergio I. Prada,
Virginia Zarama
Affiliations
Sarita Rodriguez
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia
Tania M. Guzmán
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia
Eric Tafurt
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia; Universidad Icesi - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Cali, Colombia
Estefanía Beltrán
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia
Andrés Castro
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia
Fernando Rosso
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia; Fundación Valle del Lili, Infectious Diseases Service, Cali 760032, Colombia; Universidad Icesi - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Cali, Colombia
Sergio I. Prada
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia; Universidad Icesi, Centro PROESA, Cali, Colombia; Corresponding author at: Fundación Valle del Lili, Carrera. 98 # 18-49, Cali, Colombia.
Virginia Zarama
Fundación Valle del Lili, Centro de Investigaciones Clínicas, Cali 760032, Colombia; Fundación Valle del Lili, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cali 760032, Colombia; Universidad Icesi - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Cali, Colombia
Registries are essential to providing valuable clinical and epidemiological decisions. Designing a registry is challenging because it is time-consuming and resource-intensive, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Here, we described our experience with the rationale, design, and implementation of a hospital-based COVID-19 registry in Cali, Colombia. We designed and implemented a hospital-based registry over a dynamic web-based structure to record all sociodemographic, clinical, and laboratory tests, imaging, treatment, and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2. We included 4458 confirmed COVID-19 cases of 18 years and older from March 2020 to March 2021. The median age was 48 years. The most frequent comorbidities were hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. The ICU admission rate was 19%, and the in-hospital mortality rate was 20%. The implemented strategies provided rapid and reliable information collection for the registry of emerging studies from the different clinical areas. Regular data quality and feedback are essential to ensure the reliability of the information. The integration of automatic data extraction reduces time consumption in information gathering and resources.
