Rates and Factors Associated With Documentation of Diagnostic Codes for Long COVID in the National Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Some persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience symptoms or impairments many months after acute infection.

Objectives

To determine the rates, clinical setting, and factors associated with documented receipt of COVID-19-related care 3 or more months after acute infection.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs health care system. Participants included persons with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test between February 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, who were still alive 3 months after infection and did not have evidence of reinfection. Data analysis was performed from February 2020 to December 2021.

Exposures

Positive SARS-CoV-2 test.

Main outcomes and measures

Rates and factors

SUBMITTER: Ioannou GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9338411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature