A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies

Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not in...

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Autores principales: Wyper, Grant M. A., McDonald, Scott A., Haagsma, Juanita A., Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Charalampous, Periklis, Maini, Rishma, Smith, Pierre, Pires, Sara M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10621107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37919765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01212-1
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author Wyper, Grant M. A.
McDonald, Scott A.
Haagsma, Juanita A.
Devleesschauwer, Brecht
Charalampous, Periklis
Maini, Rishma
Smith, Pierre
Pires, Sara M.
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McDonald, Scott A.
Haagsma, Juanita A.
Devleesschauwer, Brecht
Charalampous, Periklis
Maini, Rishma
Smith, Pierre
Pires, Sara M.
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description Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned.
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spelling pubmed-106211072023-11-03 A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies Wyper, Grant M. A. McDonald, Scott A. Haagsma, Juanita A. Devleesschauwer, Brecht Charalampous, Periklis Maini, Rishma Smith, Pierre Pires, Sara M. Arch Public Health Correspondence Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned. BioMed Central 2023-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10621107/ /pubmed/37919765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01212-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Correspondence
Wyper, Grant M. A.
McDonald, Scott A.
Haagsma, Juanita A.
Devleesschauwer, Brecht
Charalampous, Periklis
Maini, Rishma
Smith, Pierre
Pires, Sara M.
A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
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title_full A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
title_fullStr A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
title_full_unstemmed A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
title_short A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
title_sort proposal for further developing fatigue-related post covid-19 health states for burden of disease studies
topic Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10621107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37919765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01212-1
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