Recommendations for the Utilization of Claims Data During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Project EgePan-Unimed of the Netzwerk Universitatsmedizin (NUM)

Jacob, Josephine, Walker, Jochen, Swart, Enno, Baum, Fabian, Roessler, Martin, Tesch, Falko, Walther, Felix ORCID: 0000-0002-5259-124X, Wiegand, Hauke Felix, Ihle, Peter and Schmitt, Jochen . Recommendations for the Utilization of Claims Data During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the Project EgePan-Unimed of the Netzwerk Universitatsmedizin (NUM). Gesundheitswesen. STUTTGART: GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG. ISSN 1439-4421

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DOI:10.1055/a-1915-4526

Abstract

For appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for obtaining answers to various relevant research questions, empirical data are required. Claims data of health insurances are a valid data source in such a situation. Within the project egePan-Unimed of the Netzwerk Universitatsmedizin (NUM) we investigated five COVID-19-related research questions using German claims data of statutory health insurances. We studied the prevalence and relevance of risk factors for a severe course of COVID-19, the background incidence of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and myocarditis, the frequency and symptoms of post-COVID as well as the care of people with a psychiatric condition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on these cases, context-specific recommendations regarding the use of German claims data for future pandemics or other public health emergencies were derived, namely that the utilization of established and interdisciplinary project teams enables a timely project start and furthermore, meta-analytic methods are a valuable way to pool aggregated results of claims data analyses when data protection regulations do not allow a consolidation of data sets from different statutory health insurances. Under these circumstances, claims data are a readily available and valid data source of empirical evidence base necessary for public health measures during a pandemic.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Jacob, Josephine	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Walker, Jochen	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Swart, Enno	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Baum, Fabian	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Roessler, Martin	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tesch, Falko	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Walther, Felix	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-5259-124X	UNSPECIFIED
Wiegand, Hauke Felix	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ihle, Peter	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Schmitt, Jochen	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED