Studying the Long-term Impact of COVID-19 in Kids (SLICK). Healthcare use and costs in children and young people following community-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: protocol for an observational study using linked primary and secondary routinely collected healthcare data from England, Scotland and Wales.
Olivia V SwannNazir I LoneEwen M HarrisonLaurie A TomlinsonAlex J WalkerMichael J SeaborneLouisa PollockJames FarrellPeter S HallSohan SethThomas C WilliamsJennifer PrestonJ Samantha AinsworthFreya F SempleJ Kenneth BaillieVittal Srinivasa KatikireddiAshley AkbariRonan A LyonsColin R SimpsonMalcolm G SempleAlex J WalkerSinead BrophyAziz SheikhAnnemarie B DochertyPublished in: BMJ open (2022)
This study was approved by the South-Central Oxford C Health Research Authority Ethics Committee (13/SC/0149). Findings will be preprinted and published in peer-reviewed journals. Analysis code and code lists will be available through public GitHub repositories and OpenCodelists with meta-data via HDR-UK Innovation Gateway.