The first study of Covid-19 patients seven months after their hospital discharge
‘Clinical Microbiology and Infection’, the magazine published by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), has published the first scientific article resulting from the monitoring of Covid-19 patients during the seven months following their hospital discharge. Due to the scarcity of publications and data available to date, the team from the internal medicine service at the Hospital de Barcelona, led by the Service Head, Dr. Yolanda Meije, carried out the clinical study using a broad, uniform cohort of 300 patients.
All of them were treated with the same admission protocol; after discharge they were monitored at a pioneer post-Covid health centre launched by Assistència Sanitària, with x-ray studies and analyses. The patients show symptoms related to Covid-19 in 78% of the cases 45 days after hospital discharge (asthenia and respiratory problems) and in 50% of cases after 7 months (asthenia, dyspnea and psychological disorders).
