{"id":531,"date":"2020-08-26T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=531"},"modified":"2020-08-31T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T02:46:50","slug":"post-discharge-persistent-symptoms-and-health-related-quality-of-life-after-hospitalization-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/post-discharge-persistent-symptoms-and-health-related-quality-of-life-after-hospitalization-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Discharge Persistent Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life after Hospitalization for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In a single-center study assessing post-discharge persistent symptoms and health-related quality of life of COVID-19 patients (n=279), most patients still had persistent symptoms 110 days after being discharged, especially fatigue (55%) and shortness of breath (42%). Twenty percent of patients, primarily women, reported significant hair loss. Among the participants who were actively working prior to infection (n=56), 69% had gone back to work. Among the patients who engaged in regular sports activities prior to hospitalization (n=39), 72% have been able to resume physical activity, but at a lower level for 46% of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Garrigues et al. (Aug 26, 2020). Post-Discharge Persistent Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life after Hospitalization for COVID-19. Journal of Infection. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.08.029\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.08.029<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a single-center study assessing post-discharge persistent symptoms and health-related quality of life of COVID-19 patients (n=279), most patients still had persistent symptoms 110 days after being discharged, especially fatigue (55%) and shortness of breath (42%). Twenty percent of patients, primarily women, reported significant hair loss. Among the participants who were actively working prior to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/post-discharge-persistent-symptoms-and-health-related-quality-of-life-after-hospitalization-for-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}