Health-related quality of life issues, including symptoms, in patients with active COVID-19 or post COVID-19; a systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This systematic review was performed to identify all relevant health-related quality of life (HRQoL) issues associated with COVID-19.

Methods

A systematic literature search was undertaken in April 2020. In four teams of three reviewers each, all abstracts were independently reviewed for inclusion by two reviewers. Using a pre-defined checklist of 93 criteria for each publication, data extraction was performed independently by two reviewers and subsequently compared and discussed. If necessary, a third reviewer resolved any discrepancies. The search was updated in February 2021 to retrieve new publications on HRQoL issues including issues related to the long-term consequences of COVID-19.

Results

The search in April 2020 identified 3342 potentially relevant pub

SUBMITTER: Amdal CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214069 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature