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SynthesisFrontiers in public health2023

Post-acute COVID-19 symptom risk in hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Niu Yuan, Zhang-Hong Lv, Chun-Rong Sun, Yuan-Yuan Wen, Ting-Yu Tao, Dan Qian, Fang-Ping Tao, Jia-Hui Yu

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Synthesis in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Niu YuanDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Zhang-Hong LvDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Chun-Rong SunDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Yuan-Yuan WenDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Ting-Yu TaoDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Dan QianDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Fang-Ping TaoDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Jia-Hui YuDepartment of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Post-acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms occurred in most of the COVID-19 survivors. However, few studies have examined the issue of whether hospitalization results in different post-acute COVID-19 symptom risks. This study aimed to compare potential COVID-19 long-term effects in hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors. Methods: This study is designed as a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. A systematic search of six databases was performed for identifying articles published from inception until April 20th, 2022, which compared post-acute COVID-19 symptom risk in hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors using a predesigned search strategy included terms for SARS-CoV-2 (eg, Results: Six observational studies conducted in Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA involving 419 hospitalized and 742 non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors were included. The number of COVID-19 survivors in included studies ranged from 63 to 431, and follow-up data were collected through visits in four studies and another two used an electronic questionnaire, visit and telephone, respectively. Significant increase in the risks of long dyspnea (OR = 3.18, 95% CI = 1.90-5.32), anxiety (OR = 3.09, 95% CI = 1.47-6.47), myalgia (OR = 2.33, 95% CI = 1.02-5.33), and hair loss (OR = 2.76, 95% CI = 1.07-7.12) risk were found in hospitalized COVID-19 survivors compared with outpatients. Conversely, persisting ageusia risk was significantly reduced in hospitalized COVID-19 survivors than in non-hospitalized patients. Conclusion: The findings suggested that special attention and patient-centered rehabilitation service based on a needs survey should be provided for hospitalized COVID-19 survivors who experienced high post-acute COVID-19 symptoms risk.

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AgeusiaCOVID-19AnxietyHumansObservational Studies as TopicPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 survivorhospitalizedlong-COVIDmeta-analysisnon-hospitalizedpost-acute COVID-19 symptom

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