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Rehabilitation needs following COVID-19: Five-month post-discharge clinical follow-up of individuals with concerning self-reported symptoms by Carl Wahlgren; Anestis Divanoglou; Melanie Larsson; Emma Nilsson; Åse Östholm Balkhed; Katarina Niward; Ulrika Birberg Thornberg; Eva Lilliecreutz Gudmundsson; Richard Levi is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background This report describes and objectivizes reported problems among a cohort of previously hospitalized COVID-19 patients by clinical examination and determination of the required level of rehabilitation sevices. ## Methods This report forms part of the Linköping COVID-19 Study (LinCoS) that included 745 individuals from one of 21 Swedish healthcare regions, Region Östergötland (RÖ), admitted to hospital for COVID-19 during March 1st–May 31st, 2020. In this descriptive ambidirectional cohort study, all 185 individuals who had reported concerning persisting symptoms were invited to a multi-professional clinical assessment of somatic, functional, affective, neuropsychological status and rehabilitation needs. Rehabilitation needs were assessed using three sub-scales of the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale-Extended. ## Findings Among the 158 (85·4%) cases consenting and included in the analysis, we found a broad array of symptoms and signs attributable to COVID-19 involving respiratory, visual, auditory, motor, sensory and cognitive functions that could be confirmed clinically at five months post-discharge. This translated into 16% [95% CI 13–20] of survivors (70/433) of the to
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- Author
- Carl Wahlgren; Anestis Divanoglou; Melanie Larsson; Emma Nilsson; Åse Östholm Balkhed; Katarina Niward; Ulrika Birberg Thornberg; Eva Lilliecreutz Gudmundsson; Richard Levi
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)