Patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID: an OpenSAFELY study using electronic health records
We identified variation in coded long COVID by patient characteristic. Results should be interpreted with caution as long COVID was likely under-recorded in EHRs.
Authors
- Rochelle Knight (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4128-6821)
- Angela Wood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7937-304X)
- Rachel Denholm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8067-5440)
- Claire J. Steves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4910-0489)
- Kurt Taylor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-063X)
- Felix Greaves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-3122)
- John Macleod (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8202-1144)
- Jonathan A C Sterne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8496-6053)
- Dylan M. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3825-2487)
- Elsie Horne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5545-7628)
- Simon Davy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-3619)
- Aziz Sheikh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-3056)
- Seb Bacon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6354-3454)
- Amir Mehrkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2098-1278)
- Alex J Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-6135)
- Stephanie Riley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7429-6655)
- Louis Fisher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0295-3812)
- Robert Willans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3461-9691)
- Yinghui Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7873-0009)
- Ben Goldacre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-4728)
- Venexia M. Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5064-446X)
- Spiros Denaxas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9612-7791)
- Richard J. Silverwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2744-1194)
- Geneviève Cézard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3011-7416)
- Nish Chaturvedi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-2775)
Institutions
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- British Heart Foundation (GB)
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- UK Dementia Research Institute (GB)
- Institute of Population and Public Health (CA)
- UCL Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (GB)
- Spinal Research (GB)
- Health Data Research UK (GB)
- MRC Epidemiology Unit (GB)
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Plymouth (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJGP Open
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2024.0140
- Primary Topic
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- UK Research and Innovation
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- British Heart Foundation
- Department of Health and Social Care
- University College London
- University of Bristol
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Medical Research Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley