COVID-19 surveillance - a descriptive study on data quality issues: Data entry errors in the updated dataset (DGSAugust)
The age of one patient is probably wrong (134 years old). There were 3 male patients and an older woman (97 years old) registered as pregnant.There was a wrong diagnosis date (50-05-2020) and 19 patients had registered dates of diagnosis before the first official case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Portugal. There were also two patients with a negative length of stay in hospital.The variable ‘recovery date’ had only three values even though it refers to a 120 days períod -for 6,772 patients the date of recovery was recorded as ‘April 3’, for 1,032 patients ‘May 25’ and for 242 the date of recovery recorded was ‘May 26’.
