Analyzing the economic burden of COVID-19 patient hospitalization and testing: A comparison between the Netherlands and Germany

This study is a retrospective comparative analysis of the financial burden on the health care systems of two European countries resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The first objective was to determine the financial burden of COVID-19 patient hospitalizations in the Netherlands and Germany, which was carried out over a period of 30 days around the pandemic peak and calculated per 100,000 inhabitants. The second objective was to evaluate the two countries’ infection and diagnosis testing, via a one-day analysis, in terms of the optimum number of COVID-19 tests according to the World Health Org... Mehr ...