Clinical coding of long COVID in primary care 2020-2023 in a cohort of 19 million adults: an OpenSAFELY analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long COVID is the patient-coined term for the persistent symptoms of COVID-19 illness for weeks, months or years following the acute infection. There is a large burden of long COVID globally from self-reported data, but the epidemiology, causes and treatments remain poorly understood. Primary care is used to help identify and treat patients with long COVID and therefore Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of past COVID-19 patients could be used to help fill these knowledge gaps. We aimed to describe the incidence and differences in demographic and clinical characteristics in recorded long COVID in primary care records in England.

Methods

With the approval of NHS England we used routine clinical data from over 19 million adults in England linked to SARS-COV-2 test res

SUBMITTER: Henderson AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11127160 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature