The Long COVID Symptoms and Severity Score: Development, Validation, and Application.

Gengchen YeYanan ZhuWenrui BaoHeping ZhouJiandong LaiYuchen ZhangJuanping XieQingbo MaZhaoyao LuoShaohui MaYichu GuoXuanting ZhangMing ZhangXuan Niu

Published in: Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (2024)

The LC-SSS provides a robust and valid tool for assessing long COVID. The severity categories established via K-means clustering demonstrate significant variation in symptom severity, informing personalized treatment and improving care quality for patients with long COVID.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
healthcare
quality improvement
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
palliative care
mass spectrometry
pain management
simultaneous determination
chronic pain
high resolution mass spectrometry