tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Schmerz
. 2022 Feb 25.
doi: 10.1007/s00482-022-00626-0. Online ahead of print.
Spontaneously reported persistent symptoms related to coronavirus disease 2019 one year after hospital discharge : A retrospective cohort single-center study
David Zuschlag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Daniel Grandt[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Florian Custodis[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Christian Braun[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Winfried Häuser[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
in English, German
Background: There are no outcome studies for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors one year after hospital discharge in Germany.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all patients with polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hospitalized in the departments of internal medicine of the Klinikum Saarbrücken, a tertiary care hospital, between March 15 and December 31, 2020. A telephone interview with survivors was conducted at least 12 months after discharge. The interview was initiated with an open-ended question whether the patient had fully recovered from the disease. In the event of a subjective incomplete recovery, the patient was prompted to report any continuous or frequent symptoms that had not occurred prior to COVID-19. Finally, independent of the open-ended question response, all patients were asked closed questions which addressed new symptom onset of persistent fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, headache, muscle and joint pain following COVID-19.
Results: In all, 235 survivors were contacted and 162 could be included in the analysis. In 55 of 162 interviews (34.0%) at least one persistent COVID-19 symptom (PCS) was spontaneously reported. Four of 55 survivors with PCS reported five additional symptoms on the closed questions. One survivor, who responded positively to the open-ended question, reported new onset PCS in response to the closed questions. Physical fatigue (24.7%), cognitive dysfunction (14.8%), shortness of breath (8.6%), muscle and joint pain (6.8%) and headache (6.2%) were the most frequently reported PCS.
Conclusions: Despite an interview technique aimed to reduce attribution bias by patients, one third of COVID-19 inpatient survivors report PCS one year after hospitalization. The complete article is written in English.
Keywords: COVID-19; Chronic pain; False attribution; Fatigue; Post COVID-19 condition.
. 2022 Feb 25.
doi: 10.1007/s00482-022-00626-0. Online ahead of print.
Spontaneously reported persistent symptoms related to coronavirus disease 2019 one year after hospital discharge : A retrospective cohort single-center study
David Zuschlag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Daniel Grandt[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Florian Custodis[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Christian Braun[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Winfried Häuser[SUP] 4 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35217881
- DOI: 10.1007/s00482-022-00626-0
Abstract
in English, German
Background: There are no outcome studies for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors one year after hospital discharge in Germany.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all patients with polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hospitalized in the departments of internal medicine of the Klinikum Saarbrücken, a tertiary care hospital, between March 15 and December 31, 2020. A telephone interview with survivors was conducted at least 12 months after discharge. The interview was initiated with an open-ended question whether the patient had fully recovered from the disease. In the event of a subjective incomplete recovery, the patient was prompted to report any continuous or frequent symptoms that had not occurred prior to COVID-19. Finally, independent of the open-ended question response, all patients were asked closed questions which addressed new symptom onset of persistent fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, headache, muscle and joint pain following COVID-19.
Results: In all, 235 survivors were contacted and 162 could be included in the analysis. In 55 of 162 interviews (34.0%) at least one persistent COVID-19 symptom (PCS) was spontaneously reported. Four of 55 survivors with PCS reported five additional symptoms on the closed questions. One survivor, who responded positively to the open-ended question, reported new onset PCS in response to the closed questions. Physical fatigue (24.7%), cognitive dysfunction (14.8%), shortness of breath (8.6%), muscle and joint pain (6.8%) and headache (6.2%) were the most frequently reported PCS.
Conclusions: Despite an interview technique aimed to reduce attribution bias by patients, one third of COVID-19 inpatient survivors report PCS one year after hospitalization. The complete article is written in English.
Keywords: COVID-19; Chronic pain; False attribution; Fatigue; Post COVID-19 condition.
