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Long COVID: a new disease?
Matias Mirofsky1, Hugo Catalano2
1Hospital Municipal de Agudos Dr. Leonidas Lucero, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Medicina
|October 14, 2024
Summary
Quaternary prevention strategies can mitigate harm from excessive medical interventions. This analysis explores its application to chronic COVID and similar post-infectious conditions, highlighting the challenges of defining new diseases.
Area of Science:
- Medical ethics
- Public health
- Epidemiology
Background:
- Quaternary prevention aims to shield patients from the harms of medical interventions.
- Defining new diseases, such as chronic COVID/long COVID, is a complex and evolving process.
- Similarities exist between chronic COVID and other post-infectious syndromes like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the relationship between the concepts of new disease definition and quaternary prevention.
- To explore the applicability of quaternary prevention principles to chronic COVID and similar conditions.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and conceptual analysis.
- Examination of definitions and terminologies for chronic COVID/long COVID.
- Comparison of chronic COVID with other described post-infectious syndromes.
Main Results:
- The definition and recognition of chronic COVID remain inconsistent across international literature.
- Quaternary prevention offers a framework for addressing potential iatrogenic consequences of managing chronic COVID.
- Understanding similarities with established post-infectious diseases aids in characterizing chronic COVID.
Conclusions:
- Applying quaternary prevention is crucial for managing the potential over-medicalization associated with chronic COVID.
- Further research is needed to standardize definitions and diagnostic criteria for chronic COVID.
- The framework of quaternary prevention can inform clinical practice and health policy for emerging post-infectious illnesses.
Keywords:
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