Patient and public involvement within epidemiological studies of long COVID in the UK

Ash Routen*, Lauren O'Mahoney, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Yvonne Alder, Amitava Banerjee, Lewis Buckland, Chris Brightling, Melanie Calvert, Jenny Camaradou, Nishi Chaturvedi, Amy Chong, Emma Dalrymple, Rosalind M Eggo, Paul Elliott, Rachael A Evans, Andy Gibson, Shamil Haroon, Emily Herrett, Linzy Houchen-Wolloff, Sarah E HughesFlic Jeyes, Karen Matthews, Christel McMullan, Jessica Morley, Roz Shafran, Nikki Smith, David Stanton, Terence Stephenson, Jonathan Sterne, Grace M Turner, Helen Ward, Kamlesh Khunti

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6 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)771-773
Number of pages3
JournalNature Medicine
Volume29
Issue number4
Early online date17 Mar 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Authors Y.A., L.B., A.C., F.J., J.C., K.S. and N.S. acted as patient and public contributors; N.S. is an expert by lived experience and provides PPI to the REACT-LC and PHOSP-COVID studies. Some of the studies described in this manuscript were supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (STIMULATE-ICP: COV-LT2-0043; OPEN Prompt: COV-LT2-0073) or jointly by NIHR and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (TLC: COV-LT-0013; CLoCk: COV-LT-0022; REACT-LC: COV-LT-0040; CONVALESCENCE: COV-LT-0009). PHOSP-COVID is jointly funded by a grant from the MRC-UKRI and the Department of Health and Social Care through the NIHR rapid response panel to tackle COVID-19 (MR/V027859/1 and COV0319). The COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study was funded by the MRC and UKRI (MC_PC_20030). The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of UKRI, MRC, the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Keywords

  • Humans
  • COVID-19/epidemiology
  • Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Epidemiologic Studies
  • United Kingdom/epidemiology

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