Open AccessDesigning a Multicenter Registry of COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections in Fars, Iran
Author(s) -
Amir Emami,
Ali Akbari,
Fatemeh Javanmardi,
Mehrzad Lotfi,
Mohsen Moghadami,
Mehrdad Sharifi,
H Bakhtiari,
Farshad Falahati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.492
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1938-744X
pISSN - 1935-7893
DOI - 10.1017/dmp.2021.100
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , coronavirus , intensive care medicine , covid-19 , epidemiology , respiratory system , disease , middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus , observational study , infectious disease (medical specialty)
A year after the emergence of a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as a new crisis in respiratory infections, there remain many uncertainties and unknowns about SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, called coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ). Although COVID-19 is known as a respiratory disease, some atypical manifestations have been seen, different from those seen in other types of viral respiratory infections. This paper aims to describe designing, launching, and implementing a data collection system for all respiratory diseases, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2 from the onset of this pandemic.