Show hospitalization data by age category as done for deaths

Hi covidata!

Why are hospitalization data not plot by age category as done for deaths?

In the repo I can find this sciensano link.

And while digging the epistat portal I can find this published paper reference where the following is stated in the methodology section:

Up to the 28th of June, detailed individual data have been recorded through the Clinical survey for 17,025 patients by 97 general hospitals which reported more than 99% of the cases and by 19 other – mainly psychiatric – hospitals for less than 1% of the cases. Both admission and discharge questionnaires were filled in for 12,891 patients (76%). Admission information had not been reported for 1513 (9%) of the patients and discharge information for 2621 (15%) of the patients. Patients not yet reported as discharged include the patients still hospitalized and those discharged but not reported yet on the 28th of June. Compared to the patients with both admission and discharge information, those without discharge information were slightly older (mean 67.2 vs. 68.5 years, respectively), but there were no significant differences regarding sex and most comorbidities (see Additional file 3). Those with no admission information had no significant differences regarding age and sex, but experienced slightly more stays in ICU (13.5% vs. 15.2%, respectively) and a higher proportion of deaths (20.8% vs. 25.5%, respectively). Missingness for key demographic variables (sex: 0.8% and age: 1.2%) in the Clinical survey is very low.

So I guess that Sciensano should have the age categories available for hospitalization.

This would be an insightful enhancement. What are your thougths about it?

Thanks for your feedback :)

pschaus / covidbe-opendata

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