Erschienen in:
03.07.2021 | Editorial
Why and how do we need comprehensive international clinical epidemiology of ARDS?
verfasst von:
Gianni Tognoni, Luigi Vivona, Antonio Pesenti
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2021
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Excerpt
One of the most evident weaknesses of scientific and public health strategies in the management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is certainly the scarcity of robust epidemiological data, not limited to the quali-quantitative descriptions of patient populations and their outcomes, specifically in the hardly comparable ICU settings of care [
1‐
3], but aimed at what has become the core and the vocation of a clinically oriented epidemiological investigation. Clinical data collected and analysed with sound methodological criteria are the essential source of information, closely complementary to physio-pathological data for a better understanding of the causes of the outcomes of critical and still uncertain clinical conditions. …