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cord-355824-7p7lov2e	Ladds, E.	Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: qualitative study of 114 long Covid patients and draft quality criteria for services	2020-10-14		.txt	text/plain	6656	404	57	Analysis revealed a confusing illness with many, varied and often relapsing-remitting symptoms and uncertain prognosis; a heavy sense of loss and stigma; difficulty accessing and navigating services; difficulty being taken seriously and achieving a diagnosis; disjointed and siloed care (including inability to access specialist services); variation in standards (e.g. inconsistent criteria for seeing, investigating and referring patients); variable quality of the therapeutic relationship (some participants felt well supported while others described feeling fobbed off); and possible critical events (e.g. deterioration after being unable to access services). Whilst academic publications have estimated that 10-20% of people are still unwell after 3 weeks and 1-3% are still significantly unwell after 12 weeks, 3 8 self-surveys of patients recruited from long Covid peer support groups suggest a much high incidence of persistent symptoms even taking account of sampling bias (for example, several thousand people from the UK in such groups report symptoms six months after their acute illness, which suggests that the figure of 1% cannot be correct).	./cache/cord-355824-7p7lov2e.txt	./txt/cord-355824-7p7lov2e.txt