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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2025

The 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Long COVID Definition: What Clinicians Need to Know.

Lily Chu, Karyn Bishof, Abigail A Dumes, E Wesley Ely, Paule V Joseph, Andrea B Troxel, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lily ChuInternational Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Stony Brook, NY, USA. lilyxchu@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0691-3586
Karyn BishofCOVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, Inc. (C19LAP), Boca Raton, FL, USA.
Abigail A DumesDepartment of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
E Wesley ElyCritical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Paule V JosephNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Andrea B TroxelDivision of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Millions of Americans affected by Long COVID (LC) report difficulty accessing care and support. One barrier is obtaining a diagnosis. In response, US federal agencies commissioned a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee to re-examine the existing federal definitions for LC. The Committee concluded that LC is "an infection-associated chronic condition (IACC) occurring after SARS-CoV-2 infection that is present for at least 3 months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that can present as singular or multiple symptoms and/or diagnosable conditions." The full report was released in June 2024. We briefly highlight features and aspects of the definition that may help clinicians identify those who remain undiagnosed and improve care for all LC patients.

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COVID-19National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine DivisionChronic DiseaseHumansPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeSARS-CoV-2United StatesCOVID-19definitiondiagnosisLong COVIDpost-acute sequelae of COVID-19

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PMID40063321
PMCPMC12325811

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