Fewer Than 1% of Long-COVID Patients Receive a Diagnosis

Medscape August 15, 2024
Liz Scherer

TOPLINE:

It appears that general practitioners do not routinely recognise long-COVID symptoms after the acute infection phase or do they routinely code for them.

METHODOLOGY:

• Researchers conducted a retrospective, population-based, longitudinal cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink AURUM and GOLD databases covering the UK population.
• Participants were ≥ 18 years of age who received their first SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosis between January 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021, and were registered with their general practice for at least 15 months per-study index date.
• The primary outcome was long-COVID prevalence in the general population, and the association between demographic and clinical risk factors.
• Subgroup analysis aimed to understand long-COVID symptoms, the risk factors in three subgroups: hospitalised,...

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