Reviews on Long COVID: A scope of the literature. Update January 2025

Claire Louise Khouja; Gary Austin Raine; Melissa Harden; Katy Sutcliffe; Amanda Jayne Sowden

Reviews on Long COVID: A scope of the literature. Update January 2025

Claire Louise Khouja, Gary Austin Raine, Melissa Harden, Katy Sutcliffe, Amanda Jayne Sowden

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Abstract

• In this update, we identified 33 published reviews and 30 review protocols on Long COVID.
• The number of reviews (n=33) is the same as in July 2024 (n=33), but fewer than in October 2024 (n=38), April 2024 (n=36), and January 2024 (n=42).
• Across updates (with the same search strategy), the number of reviews has ranged from 29 in October 2022 to 50 in January 2023.
• The largest categories of reviews were treatment or rehabilitation only (12/33), and the prevalence of symptoms or effects only (10/33); these two categories were largest in most previous updates.
• The number of protocols (n=30) identified is fewer than in previous updates; as was the case in our last update (October 2024, n=35).
• The largest category of protocols focused on the prevalence of symptoms or effects only (10/30), with treatment or rehabilitation only (5/30) being the next largest category.

Original language	English
Publisher	EPPI Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education, University College London
Commissioning body	NIHR Policy Research Programme
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-911605-70-6
Publication status	Published - 27 Feb 2025

Keywords

Long COVID
Systematic reviews
systematic map

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