Long-Term Health Effects of COVID-19: Disability and Function Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2024)
Chapter: Appendix B: Literature Search Strategies
Appendix B
Literature Search Strategies
Long-Term Health Effects Stemming from COVID-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration—Function Literature Search
Date of Search: 6/12/2023
Request: Functional changes due to Long COVID
Search Parameters:
Date: 2020—Present
Geographic Focus: All
Language: English
Databases: PubMed, Embase (Ovid) and Scopus
Article Type: Prospective cohort studies. If not many, include cross-sectional studies
Database Searches:
PubMed
(“Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome”[Mesh] or Post-Acute-COVID-19Syndrome[tiab] or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID-19[tiab] or COVID-19-Long-Haul[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID-19[tiab] or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome[tiab] or Long-COVID[tiab] or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection[tiab] or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARSCoV-2-Infection[tiab] or Post-COVID-Conditions[tiab] or Post-COVID-Conditions[tiab] or Post-COVID-Condition[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID[tiab] or COVID-Long-Haul[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID[tiab] or long-covid[tiab]
or pediatric-long-covid[tiab] or pediatric-PASC[tiab] or COVID-19/complications[Mesh]) AND (Employment[Mesh] or Unemployment[Mesh] or Quality of Life[Mesh] or “Functional Status”[Mesh] or “Disability Evaluation”[Mesh] or “International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health”[Mesh] or “Return to Work”[Mesh] or “Return to School”[Mesh] or “Occupational Health”[Mesh] or functional[tiab] or employment[tiab] or unemployment[tiab] or life quality[tiab] or “quality of life”[tiab] or return to work[tiab] or return to school[tiab] or trajectory recovery[tiab]) AND (“Prospective Studies”[Mesh] or prospective study[tiab] or prospective studies[tiab] or prospective cohort[tiab] or “Cross-Sectional Studies”[Mesh] or cross-sectional[tiab])
Language: English
Results: 262 results
Embase (Ovid)
| Embase <1980 to 2023 Week 23> | ||
| 1 | *coronavirus disease 2019/co [Complication] | 314 |
| 2 | long covid/ or (Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or COVID-19Syndrome-Post-Acute or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or COVID-19-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Long-COVID or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Condition or Long-Haul-COVID or COVID-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID or long-covid or chronic-COVID-syndrome or chronic-COVID-19 or COVID-long-hauler or COVID-19-long-hauler or long-haul-COVID or long-hauler-COVID or post-COVID-19-fatigue or post-COVID-19neurological-syndrome or post-COVID-19-syndrome or post-COVID-fatigue or post-COVID-impairment or post-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-19 or post-acute-COVID-19-fatigue or post-acute-COVID-19-neurological-syndrome or pediatric-long-covid or pediatric-PASC or long-covid-in-children or ((late-sequelae or long-term-sequelae) adj4 covid)).ti,ab,kw. | 6377 |
| 3 | 1 or 2 | 6685 |
| 4 | exp employment/ or exp unemployment/ or exp functional status/ or exp functional assessment/ or exp disability assessment/ or exp return to work/ or exp return to school/ or exp “quality of life”/ or exp occupational health/ or (employment or unemployment or functional or disability-assessment* or disability-evaluation* or return-to-school or return-to-work or life-quality or quality-of-life or occupational-health or trajectory-recovery).ti,ab,kw. | 3011277 |
| 5 | 3 and 4 | 1422 |
| 6 | exp prospective study/ or (prospective-stud* or prospective cohort). ti,ab,kw. | 1014974 |
| 7 | 5 and 6 | 201 |
| 8 | limit 7 to English language | 196 |
| 9 | exp cross-sectional study/ or cross-sectional.ti,ab,kw. | 805834 |
| 10 | 5 and 9 | 162 |
| 11 | limit 10 to English language | 161 |
Scopus:
TITLE-ABS-KEY((Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or COVID-19-Syndrome-Post-Acute or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or COVID-19-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Long-COVID or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Condition or Long-Haul-COVID or COVID-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID or long-covid or chronic-COVID-syndrome or chronic-COVID-19 or COVID-long-hauler or COVID-19-long-hauler or long-haul-COVID or long-hauler-COVID or post-COVID-19-fatigue or post-COVID-19-neurological-syndrome or post-COVID-19-syndrome or post-COVID-fatigue or post-COVID-impairment or post-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-19 or post-acute-COVID-19-fatigue or post-acute-COVID-19neurological-syndrome or pediatric-long-covid or pediatric-PASC or long-covid-in-children) AND (employment or unemployment or functional or disability-assessment* or disability-evaluation* or return-to-school or return-to-work or life-quality or quality-of-life or occupational-health or trajectory-recovery) AND (cross-section* or prospective-stud* or prospective-cohort*))
Language: English
Results: 274
6/13/23—Title Screening
196 papers included
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria:
- Inclusion:
- prospective cohort
- exposure: covid
-
- outcomes: function, disability, quality of life
- follow-up: 6 months 1
- population: children and working-age adults
- Exclusion:
- ICU outcomes with short-term followup
- pharmaceutical safety and treatment efficacy
- elderly/geriatric population
- in-hospital complications
- Included as potentially relevant:
- ICU/intubation/ventilation outcomes with 61 month followup
- Shorter followup but relevant functional outcomes
- Long covid in patients with specific conditions
- Changes in function after rehab
6/20/23—Final Papers Included in Report Divided into Categories After Abstract Screening:
Children: 7
Hospital: 57
ICU: 13
Non-hospital: 51
Rehab: 14
Long-Term Health Effects Stemming from COVID-19 and Implications for the Social Security Administration—Health Effects Literature Search
Date of search: June 14, 2023
Search Parameters:
Date: 2020—Present
Geographic Focus: All
Language: English
Databases: PubMed, Embase (Ovid) and Scopus
Article Type: Exclude case studies—focus on large cohort studies
Database Searches:
PubMed
(“Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome”[Mesh] or Post-Acute-COVID-19Syndrome[tiab] or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID-19[tiab] or COVID-19-Long-Haul[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID-19 [tiab] or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome[tiab] or Long-COVID[tiab] or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection[tiab] or Post-Acute-Sequelae-
of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection[tiab] or Post-COVID-Conditions[tiab] or Post-COVID-Conditions[tiab] or Post-COVID-Condition[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID[tiab] or COVID-Long-Haul[tiab] or Long-Haul-COVID[tiab] or long-covid[tiab] or pediatric-long-covid[tiab] or pediatric-PASC[tiab] or COVID-19/complications[Mesh]) AND (symptom*[tiab] or outcome*[tiab] or clinical-feature*[tiab]) AND (persist*[tiab] or clinical-sequelae[tiab] or evolution[tiab]) AND (“Cohort Studies”[Mesh] or cohort*[tiab] or retrospective stud*[tiab] or multicenter stud*[tiab]) NOT “Case Reports” [Publication Type]
Language: English
Results: 556
Embase (Ovid)
| Embase {1980 to 2023 Week 23} | ||
| 1 | *coronavirus disease 2019/co [Complication] | 314 |
| 2 | long covid/ or (Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or COVID-19Syndrome-Post-Acute or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or COVID-19-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Long-COVID or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Condition or Long-Haul-COVID or COVID-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID or long-covid or chronic-COVID-syndrome or chronic-COVID-19 or COVID-long-hauler or COVID-19-long-hauler or long-haul-COVID or long-hauler-COVID or post-COVID-19-fatigue or post-COVID-19neurological-syndrome or post-COVID-19-syndrome or post-COVID-fatigue or post-COVID-impairment or post-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-19 or post-acute-COVID-19-fatigue or post-acute-COVID-19-neurological-syndrome or pediatric-long-covid or pediatric-PASC or long-covid-in-children or ((late-sequelae or long-term-sequelae) adj4 covid)).ti,ab,kw. | 6377 |
| 3 | 1 or 2 | 6685 |
| 4 | (symptom* or outcome* or clinical-feature* or condition*).ti,ab,kw. | 7813432 |
| 5 | (persist* or clinical-sequelae or evolution).ti,ab,kw. | 1230131 |
| 6 | exp cohort analysis/ or cohort*.ti,ab,kw. | 1678149 |
| 7 | exp case study/ | 99189 |
| 8 | 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 | 495 |
| 9 | 8 not 7 | 491 |
| 10 | limit 9 to English language | 489 |
Scopus:
TITLE-ABS-KEY((Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or COVID-19-Syndrome-Post-Acute or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndromes or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or COVID-19-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID-19 or Post-Acute-COVID-19Syndrome or Post-Acute-COVID-19-Syndrome or Long-COVID or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-Infection or Post-Acute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2Infection or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Conditions or Post-COVID-Condition or Long-Haul-COVID or COVID-Long-Haul or Long-Haul-COVID or long-covid or chronic-COVID-syndrome or chronic-COVID-19 or COVID-long-hauler or COVID-19-long-hauler or long-haul-COVID or long-hauler-COVID or post-COVID-19-fatigue or post-COVID-19-neurological-syndrome or post-COVID-19-syndrome or post-COVID-fatigue or post-COVID-impairment or post-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-syndrome or post-acute-COVID-19 or post-acute-COVID-19-fatigue or post-acute-COVID-19-neurological-syndrome or pediatric-long-covid or pediatric-PASC or long-covid-in-children) AND (symptom* or outcome* or clinical-feature* or condition*) AND (persist* or evolution or clinical-sequelae) AND (cohort*))
Language: English
Results: 358
