Description of symptom course in a telemedicine monitoring clinic for acute symptomatic COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe the disease course in a cohort of outpatients with COVID-19 and evaluate factors predicting duration of symptoms.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Telemedicine clinic at a large medical system in Atlanta, Georgia.

Participants

337 patients with acute COVID-19. Exclusion criteria included intake visit more than 10 days after symptom onset and hospitalisation prior to intake visit.

Main outcome measures

Symptom duration in days.

Results

Common symptoms at intake visit are upper respiratory (73% cough, 55% loss of smell or taste, 57% sinus congestion, 32% sore throat) and systemic (66% headache, 64% body aches, 53% chills, 30% dizziness, 36% fever). Day of symptom onset was earliest for systemic and upper respiratory symp

SUBMITTER: O'Keefe JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7938467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature