ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2024
How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Methods of Pediatric Post-COVID Condition Studies in High-Impact Journals: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- A digital platform with activity tracking for energy management support in long COVID: a randomised controlled trial.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- Pre-pandemic care-seeking patterns and subsequent diagnoses of post-COVID condition, post viral fatigue syndrome, and exhaustion disorder: a registry-based cohort study of 208,050 Swedish women.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Refining the role of behavioural and social sciences in pandemic response post-COVID-19.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- Neurocognitive and psychological symptoms in post COVID-19 patients (PASC24): prospective cohort study protocol.BMJ open · 2026Observational
- "That's not my silo": Navigating fragmented long COVID care in the mid-Atlantic United States.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2026Article
- Persistent Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Referred Occupational Clinical Registry: Symptom Patterns and Associated Factors.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Considerations for epidemiological studies investigating emerging post-acute infection syndromes: Long Covid as a case study.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Postacute Sequelae Following Omicron COVID-19 in Patients With Cancer.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Prevalence of long covid symptoms in Tuscany, Italy: a population-representative cross-sectional telephone survey.BMJ open · 2026Article
- From HIV to SARS-CoV-2 associated neurological disorder ("HAND" to "SAND"): Viral infection as a "time-bomb" for the aging brain.Neuroscience applied · 2026Review
- Persistent Low-Grade Inflammation and Post-COVID Condition: Evidence from the ORCHESTRA Cohort.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Comparative risk of post-acute sequelae following SARS-CoV-2 or influenza virus infection: A retrospective cohort study among United States adults.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Pandemic-disordered sleep: longer illness and more fatigue but little SARS-CoV-2 effect.ERJ open research · 2025Article
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- The Development and Initial Validation of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Long COVID (MSAS-LC): A Promising Tool for Measuring Long COVID.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- [Chronic pain syndrome in musculoskeletal diseases-how different are fibromyalgia and long COVID?-Part 2].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2025Review
- Use of Long COVID Clinics in the Veterans Health Administration: Implications for the path forward.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Wearable data reveals distinct characteristics of individuals with persistent symptoms after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Risk, determinants, and persistence of long-COVID in a population-based cohort study in Catalonia.BMC medicine · 2025Article
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