BARCELONA — The Biostatistics Unit at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute published the DIVINE study database in the journal Scientific Data on June 5, 2026. The database contains clinical information for 5,813 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
Scientific Data is a Nature Portfolio journal that specializes in publishing datasets. The DIVINE cohort patient data covers four pandemic waves between March 2020 and August 2021. This data was collected from five hospitals in the southern metropolitan area of Barcelona.
The database includes clinical characteristics, risk factors, treatments received, and hospital outcomes collected during hospitalization and follow-up. The dataset has been anonymized for public access.
Researchers can use the data to study patient progression, identify factors associated with clinical outcomes, and validate predictive models. The dataset can also serve as a teaching resource for biostatistics and epidemiology.
Cristian Tebé, Head of the Biostatistics Unit at IGTP, said, "Making clinical research data openly available is not only an act of transparency, but also an ethical commitment to science and society. It enables data reuse, the reproduction of analyses, the expansion of knowledge and the acceleration of research, while avoiding the unnecessary duplication of studies."
The DIVINE project began during the first pandemic wave with the creation of a data collection system by the Infectious Diseases Service at Bellvitge University Hospital and biostatisticians from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute. The dataset was published as an R package on CRAN, with an associated GitHub repository and a Zenodo record.
The cohort has previously contributed to studies on in-hospital mortality, long-term sequelae, patient stratification, and predictive model development. Participating institutions include Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona, Consorci Sanitari Integral, Consorci Sanitari Alt Penedès Garraf, Viladecans Hospital, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, and the CIBER in Infectious Diseases. The participating researchers represent the MetroSud and DIVINE groups, and the journal reference for the publication is DOI 10.1038/s41597-026-07479-7.
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