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. 2023 Feb 2:1–22. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10389-023-01838-z

Table 3.

Data specifications used by reviewed COVID-19 dashboards

Study #
(Ref )
Country Source of data Level of granularity Input data
Primary Secondary Global National State-wide County-wide Organizational Deaths Active/new cases Recovered Tests Other

S1

(Salehi et al. 2021)

Iran, South Africa

- WHO

- CDC

- Home isolation

- Hospitalized

- ICU hosted

- Vaccination

S2

(Santhanavanich et al. 2020)

Germany

- JHU - Worldometer

- Robert Koch Institute (RKI, Germany)

S3

(Yang et al. 2021)

Taiwan, UK - COVID-19 outbreak numbers for 189 infected countries/regions from the GitHub websites N/S N/S N/S

S4

(Zhu et al. 2021)

USA

- JHU

- NYT

- COVID Tracking Project

- Tweets (COVID-19 related tweets from 1 January 2020–16 May 2020)

- Catalog and taxonomy of COVID-19 related facts

COVID-19-related tweets

S5

(Aristizábal-Torres et al. 2020)

Colombia - Data provided by the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS)

- Demographic data

- Geographic data

- Home isolation

- Hospitalized

- ICU hosted

- Patient status

S6

(Hodgson et al. 2020)

UK laboratory reporting system

- Location of patient

- Patient status

- Test status (suspected, awaiting test, confirmed)

S7

(Raj et al. 2020)

India - Six COVID-19 data websites (covidindia.org, oneindia.com, mygov.in, grainmart.in, ndtv.com, tooloogle.com) N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S

S8

(Ravinder et al. 2020)

India

- WHO

- Population data of Italy, USA, and India

- Distance between capital cities of states

- Geographic data

- Population data

S9

(Ulahannan et al. 2020)

India

- Daily bulletins released by Department of Health Services (DHS), Government of Kerala

- Various news outlets

- Demographic data

- Home isolation

- Hospitalized

- ICU hosted

- Vaccination

S10

(Wissel et al. 2020)

USA

- NYT

- JHU

- Data of tests from COVID Tracking Project

S11

(Peddireddy et al. 2020)

USA

- 1Point3Acres

- National data on Wikipedia and WHO - USA coronavirus cases and deaths

- COVID-19 India

- Government of Canada

- Government of Greece

- COVID Tracking Project

- Worldometer

- World Population Review for USA

- WorldAtlas

- Esri Demographics for USA

- Demographic data

- Geographic data

S12

(Bae et al. 2020)

South Korea EHR

- Admission/discharge data

- Patient status

S13

(Florez and Singh 2020)

Colombia, India

- WHO

- World Population Review

- Geographic data

- Population data

S14

(Pathak et al. 2020)

USA

- Department of Health webpages from 50 states

- COVID-19 webpages from 50 states

- COVID Tracking Project’s racial data dashboard

- Demographic data

S15

(Ibrahim et al. 2020)

United Arab Emirates EHR

- Demographic data

- ICU hosted

- Patient status

S16

(Chande et al. 2020)

USA

- Population demographics from USA Census Bureau

- State-level cases from COVID Tracking Project

- County-level cases from NTT GitHub site

- Geographic data

- Population data

S17

(Marivate and Combrink 2020)

South Africa

- National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)

- National Department of Health

- Demographic data

- Geographic data

- ICU hosted

- Population data

S18

(Hohl et al. 2020)

USA

- JHU

- USA census website

- Population data

S19

(Carroll and Prentice 2021)

USA

- JHU

- USA Census Bureau

- USA Transportation Department

- USA Bureau of Transportation Statistics

- USA Bureau of Labor Statistics

- Home isolation

- Population data

S20

(da Costa et al. 2021)

Portugal

- Directorate General of Health

- WHO

- ECDC

- Hospitalized

- Suspected cases

- Vaccination

S21

(Hyman et al. 2021)

USA

- ECDC

- Worldometer

- CDC

- WHO

- JHU

- Worldbank

- Bureau of Economic Analysis

- Yahoo Finance

- Economic data

- Geographic data

S22

(Clement et al. 2020)

Canada - JHU

S23

(Dixon et al. 2021)

USA

- Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC)

- Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE)

- Demographic data

- Discharges

- Emergency department visits

- Hospitalized

- ICU hosted

- Length of stay

- Patient status

S24

(Arias-Carrasco et al. 2021)

Chile Geographic and temporal data (provided by users)

- Geographic data

- Temporal data

S25

(Chauhan et al. 2021)

India

- ECDC

- WHO

- BNO News

- CDC

- Worldometer

- India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

- 1Point3Acres

S26

(Barone et al. 2020)

Italy ECDC

N/S, not specified; JHU, COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States of America (USA); NYT, New York Times; EHR, Electronic Health Record; ECDC, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; WHO, World Health Organization; ICU, Intensive Care Unit; USA, United States of America