{"id":942,"date":"2021-07-09T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/?p=942"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T16:46:40","slug":"outcomes-among-patients-referred-to-outpatient-rehabilitation-clinics-after-covid-19-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/outcomes-among-patients-referred-to-outpatient-rehabilitation-clinics-after-covid-19-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcomes Among Patients Referred to Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinics After COVID-19 diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of June 30, 2021, 33.5 million persons in the United States had received a diagnosis of COVID-19 (1). Although most patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, recover within a few weeks, some experience post\u2013COVID-19 conditions. These range from new or returning to ongoing health problems that can continue beyond 4 weeks. Persons who were asymptomatic at the time of infection can also experience post\u2013COVID-19 conditions. Data on post\u2013COVID-19 conditions are emerging and information on rehabilitation needs among persons recovering from COVID-19 is limited. Using data acquired during January 2020\u2013March 2021 from Select Medical* outpatient rehabilitation clinics, CDC compared patient-reported measures of health, physical endurance, and health care use between patients who had recovered from COVID-19 (post\u2013COVID-19 patients) and patients needing rehabilitation because of a current or previous diagnosis of a neoplasm (cancer) who had not experienced COVID-19 (control patients). All patients had been referred to outpatient rehabilitation. Compared with control patients, post\u2013COVID-19 patients had higher age- and sex-adjusted odds of reporting worse physical health (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 1.8), pain (aOR = 2.3), and difficulty with physical activities (aOR = 1.6). Post\u2013COVID-19 patients also had worse physical endurance, measured by the 6-minute walk test\u2020 (6MWT) (p<0.001) compared with control patients. Among patients referred to outpatient rehabilitation, those recovering from COVID-19 had poorer physical health and functional status than those who had cancer, or were recovering from cancer but not COVID-19. Patients recovering from COVID-19 might need additional clinical support, including tailored physical and mental health rehabilitation services.\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7027a2.htm\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of June 30, 2021, 33.5 million persons in the United States had received a diagnosis of COVID-19 (1). Although most patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, recover within a few weeks, some experience post\u2013COVID-19 conditions. These range from new or returning to ongoing health problems that can continue beyond 4 weeks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golservices.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}