What is needed: A line listing of covid-19 patients

A line listing includes individual key covid-19 patient information that is updated daily until discharge or illness resolution (Fig. \ref{993187}). Preferably, a patient’s listing continues if a patient is transferred to another hospital or is readmitted. A patient’s record is updated to confirmed covid-19 if their test comes back positive on any day of their admission. Epidemiologists routinely report epidemic curves of cases based on the date of illness onset. Covid-19 surveillance similarly benefits from reporting hospitalization based on the date of illness or admission. However, hospitals do not routinely report this information, and the creation of a line listing of hospital patients is often not well supported in electronic medical record systems.