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Adult nursing
Patient-centred approaches are key to improving Long Covid healthcare access
  1. Alison Twycross1,
  2. Michaela Barnard2
  1. 1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alison Twycross, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; a.m.twycross{at}bham.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104070

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    Commentary on: Turk F, Sweetman J, Chew-Graham CA, et al. Accessing care for long covid from the perspectives of patients and healthcare practitioners: a qualitative study. Health Expect 2024;27:e14008. doi.org/10.1111/hex.140081

    Implications for practice and research

    • Training to enhance healthcare providers’ knowledge about Long Covid and tailored, equitable and timely access to integrated healthcare suitable for diverse and complex needs is required in the management of Long Covid.

    • Future research is needed to address misinformation and the provision and effectiveness of reliable online resources for Long Covid patients along with an understanding of the effectiveness of integrated models of Long Covid care across diverse clinical settings.

    Context

    Long Covid is an emerging long-term condition resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection, characterised by a wide array of persistent symptoms, it is heterogenous …

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    Footnotes

    • X @alitwy, @MichaelaBarnard

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.