The COVID HOME study research protocol: Prospective cohort study of non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines on COVID-19 management are developed as we learn from this pandemic. However, most research has been done on hospitalised patients and the impact of the disease on non-hospitalised and their role in transmission are not yet well understood. The COVID HOME study conducts research among COVID-19 patients and their family members who were not hospitalised during acute disease, to guide patient care and inform public health guidelines for infection prevention and control in the community and household.

Methods

An ongoing prospective longitudinal observational study of COVID-19 outpatients was established in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals of all ages that did not m

SUBMITTER: Tami A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632784 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature