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Prevalence of Symptoms More Than Seven Months After Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19 in an Outpatient Setting

Published inAnnals of internal medicine, vol. 174, no. 9, p. 1252-1260
Publication date2021-09
First online date2021-07-06
Abstract

Background: With millions of SARS-CoV-2 infections worldwide, increasing numbers of patients are coming forward with long-term clinical effects of the disease lasting several weeks to months. Objective: To characterize symptoms 7 to 9 months after diagnosis of COVID-19. Design: Self-reported surveys and semistructured telephone interviews at enrollment and 30 to 45 days and 7 to 9 months from diagnosis. Setting: From 18 March to 15 May 2020, symptomatic persons who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at the Geneva University Hospitals were followed by CoviCare, a virtual, clinical, outpatient follow-up program. Persons were contacted again at 30 to 45 days and 7 to 9 months from diagnosis.

Keywords
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Ambulatory Care
  • COVID-19 / complications
  • COVID-19 / diagnosis
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • Dyspnea / virology
  • Fatigue / virology
  • Female
  • Headache / virology
  • Health Surveys / methods
  • Humans
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Olfaction Disorders / virology
  • Prevalence
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Self Report
  • Telephone
  • Time Factors
  • Young Adult
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NEHME, Mayssam et al. Prevalence of Symptoms More Than Seven Months After Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19 in an Outpatient Setting. In: Annals of internal medicine, 2021, vol. 174, n° 9, p. 1252–1260. doi: 10.7326/M21-0878
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-0878
Journal ISSN0003-4819
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