Case-control study of neuropsychiatric symptoms in electronic health records following COVID-19 hospitalization in 2 academic health systems.

ABSTRACT: Neuropsychiatric symptoms may persist following acute COVID-19 illness, but the extent to which these symptoms are specific to COVID-19 has not been established. We utilized electronic health records across 6 hospitals in Massachusetts to characterize cohorts of individuals discharged following admission for COVID-19 between March 2020 and May 2021, and compared them to individuals hospitalized for other indications during this period. Natural language processing was applied to narrative clinical notes to identify neuropsychiatric symptom domains up to 150 days following hospitalization, in addition to those reflected in diagnostic codes as measured in prior studies. Among 6619 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 drawn from a total of 42,961 hospital discharges, the most commonly-documen

SUBMITTER: Castro VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9199464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature