Assessment of rehabilitation needs in patients after COVID-19: Development of the COVID-19-rehabilitation needs survey.
Christina Lemhöfer, Christoph Gutenbrunner, Jörg Schiller and 4 others
PMID 33764478WHAT IT FOUND
The new C19-RehabNeS combines the SF-36 with a questionnaire of 57 items covering symptoms, care received, rehabilitation interventions, health services, satisfaction, activity, participation and quality of life.
It reports instrument development, not patient outcomes.
Key findings
01The C19-RehabNeS combines the SF-36 health-related quality-of-life questionnaire with the C19-RehabNeQ, which has 57 items in 7 main categories and 11 dimensions.
02The items were selected and adapted by an expert team using clinical experience, existing questionnaires, and a literature search, then approved by consensus.
03The tool was used in a follow-up survey of 1,027 patients in Germany, with a response rate of approximately 40%, but evaluation of returned questionnaires was still in progress.
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What it does not show
This paper describes how the survey was built and approved by expert consensus, not whether it reliably measures outcomes in patients. Not all items came from validated assessments, so comparability is limited until further testing. The development relied on expert opinion and clinical experience, including one author's daily work with COVID-19 patients. The 1,027-patient follow-up survey was still being evaluated, so this paper does not report its results. The survey did not include sex-specific distinctions during development, although sex can influence infection severity and course. Residual deficits and infection status were not medically or antibody verified in the planned use of the survey.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the C19-RehabNeS as a validated patient outcome measure from this paper. It reports expert development and consensus item selection, and the 1,027-patient survey evaluation was still in progress.