Four-Month Clinical Status of a Cohort of Patients After Hospitalization for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about long-term sequelae of COVID-19.

Objective

To describe the consequences at 4 months in patients hospitalized for COVID-19.

Design, setting, and participants

In a prospective uncontrolled cohort study, survivors of COVID-19 who had been hospitalized in a university hospital in France between March 1 and May 29, 2020, underwent a telephone assessment 4 months after discharge, between July 15 and September 18, 2020. Patients with relevant symptoms and all patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) were invited for further assessment at an ambulatory care visit.

Exposures

Survival of hospitalization for COVID-19.

Main outcomes and measures

Respiratory, cognitive, and functional symptoms were assessed by telephone wi

SUBMITTER: Writing Committee for the COMEBAC Study Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7970386 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature