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ReviewPain reports2021

Patient-Led Research Collaborative: embedding patients in the Long COVID narrative.

Lisa McCorkell, Gina S Assaf, Hannah E Davis, Hannah Wei, Athena Akrami

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Review in Pain reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Age-Related Changes in the Clinical Picture of Long COVID.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025
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  11. Community Engagement in Long Covid Research: Process, Evaluation and Recommendations From the Long COVID and Episodic Disability Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  19. Through Their Eyes: Using Photovoice to Capture the Capacity-Building Journey of Long Covid Patient Experts.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lisa McCorkellPatient-Led Research Collaborative, Washington DC, USA.
Gina S AssafPatient-Led Research Collaborative, Washington DC, USA.
Hannah E DavisPatient-Led Research Collaborative, Washington DC, USA.
Hannah WeiPatient-Led Research Collaborative, Washington DC, USA.
Athena AkramiPatient-Led Research Collaborative, Washington DC, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large subset of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are experiencing symptoms well beyond the claimed 2-week recovery period for mild cases. These long-term sequelae have come to be known as Long COVID. Originating out of a dedicated online support group, a team of patients formed the Patient-Led Research Collaborative and conducted the first research on Long COVID experience and symptoms. This article discusses the history and value of patient-centric and patient-led research; the formation of Patient-Led Research Collaborative as well as key findings to date; and calls for the following: the acknowledgement of Long COVID as an illness, an accurate estimate of the prevalence of Long COVID, publicly available basic symptom management, care, and research to not be limited to those with positive polymerase chain reaction and antibody tests, and aggressive research and investigation into the pathophysiology of symptoms.

Indexed as

COVID-19Long COVIDLong haulersPatient-centeredPatient-centricPatient-led researchPost-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infectionPost COVID-19 syndrome

Identifiers

PMID33987484
PMCPMC8112577

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