Long COVID in long-term care: a rapid realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The goals of this rapid realist review were to ask: (a) what are the key mechanisms that drive successful interventions for long COVID in long-term care (LTC) and (b) what are the critical contexts that determine whether the mechanisms produce the intended outcomes?

Design

Rapid realist review.

Data sources

Medline, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO and Web of Science for peer-reviewed literature and Google for grey literature were searched up to 23 February 2023.

Eligibility criteria

We included sources focused on interventions, persons in LTC, long COVID or post-acute phase at least 4 weeks following initial COVID-19 infection and ones that had a connection with source materials.

Data extraction and synthesis

Three independent reviewers searched, scr

SUBMITTER: Fyffe I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10748963 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature