Complexity and challenges of the clinical diagnosis and management of Long COVID.
O’Hare AM, Vig EK, Iwashyna TJ, et al. Complexity and challenges of the clinical diagnosis and management of Long COVID. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(11):e2240332. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.40332.
Long COVID-19 can be challenging to diagnose. Using electronic health record (EHR) data from patients receiving care in the Department of Veterans Affairs, this qualitative study explored the clinical diagnosis and management of long COVID symptoms. Two themes emerged – (1) diagnostic uncertainty about whether symptoms were due to long COVID, particularly given the absence of specific clinical markers and (2) care fragmentation and poor care coordination of post-COVID-19 care processes.