Table 1.
Comparison of the proportions of codes from the internal documents of the 5 hospitals with those from the 194 newspaper articles published during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands (March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021).
| Theme | Codes in internal documents (n=1437), n (%) | Codes in newspaper articles (n=375), n (%) | P value |
| COVID-19 capacity | 186 (12.9) | 78 (20.8) | <.001 |
| Regular care capacity | 133 (9.3) | 63 (16.8) | <.001 |
| Regional, national, and international collaboration | 133 (9.3) | 27 (7.2) | .32 |
| Human resources | 237 (16.5) | 50 (13.3) | .21 |
| Well-being | 105 (7.3) | 27 (7.2) | .86 |
| Public support | 20 (1.4) | 22 (5.9) | <.001 |
| Material resources | 118 (8.2) | 13 (3.5) | .004 |
| Innovation | 59 (4.1) | 13 (3.5) | .79 |
| Policies and protocols | 276 (19.2) | 40 (10.7) | <.001 |
| Finance | 54 (3.7) | 13 (3.4) | .97 |
| Preparedness | 92 (6.4) | 19 (5) | .49 |
| Ethics | 24 (1.7) | 10 (2.7) | .01 |