Oliver Carlile, Andrew Briggs, Alasdair D Henderson, Ben F C Butler-Cole, John Tazare, Laurie A Tomlinson, Michael Marks, Mark Jit, Liang-Yu Lin, Chris Bates, John Parry, Sebastian C J Bacon, Iain Dillingham, William A Dennison, Ruth E Costello, Alex J Walker, William Hulme, Ben Goldacre, Amir Mehrkar, Brian MacKenna, Emily Herrett, Rosalind M Eggo
BACKGROUND: Long COVID is a major problem affecting patient health, the health service, and the workforce. To optimise the design of future interventions against COVID-19, and to better plan and allocate health resources, it is critical to quantify the health and economic burden of this novel condition. We aimed to evaluate and estimate the differences in health impacts of long COVID across sociodemographic categories and quantify this in Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs), widely used measures across health systems...
May 2024: The Lancet regional health. Europe