Open Access90 days post-hospitalization evaluation of residual COVID-19 symptoms through a phone call check list
Author(s) -
Miguel Suárez-Robles,
María del Rosario Iguaran-Bermúdez,
José Luis García-Klepizg,
Noël Lorenzo-Villalba,
Manuel Méndez-Bailón
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the pan african medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.287
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1937-8688
DOI - 10.11604/pamj.2020.37.289.27110
Subject(s) - medicine , checklist , observational study , covid-19 , anxiety , pediatrics , emergency medicine , psychiatry , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cognitive psychology , psychology
An observational and descriptive study including patients discharged for COVID-19 was carried out by the COVID-19 Working Group of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos (HCSC). We aimed to identify the main symptoms after 90 days of hospital discharged. A structured interview was conducted, through a “checklist” that included symptoms within the 90 days post-discharge. A total of 134 patients were enrolled. The most frequently referred symptoms were asthenia, dyspnea and weight loss. Anxiety was the most frequent psychological symptom found through the GAD-7 scale.