Practice Management
Long COVID is possibly more prevalent than what might be recorded in electronic health record (EHR) diagnostic or referral codes, according to a descriptive study in eClinicalMedicine. Researchers analyzed clinical data from more than 19 million adults in England from November 2020 to January 2023. A total of 55,465 patients were identified with long COVID, based on 20,025 diagnostic codes and 35,440 referral codes. Median follow-up was 2.2 years, and the rate of long COVID …
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A new study out of France published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection estimates the prevalence of long COVID while considering the fact that there is no universal definition of the condition. Researchers looked at several variations of long COVID characteristics to determine its prevalence. Of 10,615 adults sampled from August-November 2022, 54.5% reported SARS-CoV-2 infection with as many as 13.4% having long COVID, depending on which definition was used. When using the World Health Organization …
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