{"id":4221,"date":"2023-08-01T13:48:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:48:45","slug":"challenges-in-developing-long-covid-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/01\/challenges-in-developing-long-covid-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in Developing Long COVID Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/105683?xid=nl_secondopinion_2023-08-01&amp;eun=g1462072d0r\">MedPageToday<\/a> In a recent\u00a0<em>JAMA<\/em>\u00a0article, researchers provided a new approach for identifying individuals with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), commonly referred to as long COVID. Because this article &#8212; from Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, and colleagues &#8212; was part of the large, federally funded U.S. RECOVER study of long COVID, it will be influential among scientists around the world who are struggling with developing a case definition for long COVID. In this opinion piece, we suggest issues that might limit the interpretation of some of the study&#8217;s findings &#8212; in particular the identification of people who have long COVID. In their introduction,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2805540\" target=\"_blank\">Thaweethai and coauthors indicate<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;Most existing PASC studies have focused on individual symptom frequency&#8230;&#8221; This is true, and it is a limitation in past studies, as either the &#8220;occurrence&#8221; of symptoms or just the &#8220;frequency&#8221; of symptoms are inadequate to help investigators understand the true burden of a post-viral symptom on a patient&#8217;s life. Studies need to incorporate severity ratings into their scales. For example, some symptoms occur frequently, but their severity is so low that they\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003371090\/understanding-behavioral-medical-impact-long-covid-leonard-jason-charles-lapp\" target=\"_blank\">may not burden<\/a> \u00a0the patient.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" Iumg xLzq\"><!--  Iumg xLzq --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday In a recent\u00a0JAMA\u00a0article, researchers provided a new approach for identifying individuals with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), commonly referred to as long COVID. Because this article &#8212; from Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, and colleagues &#8212; was part of the large, federally funded U.S. RECOVER study of long COVID, it will be influential among scientists around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}