Long COVID Recovery Care

Are you a B.C. health-care provider wondering about supports for patients living with persistent and disabling long COVID symptoms?
​​​​​​The Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network offers clinical care and patient and provider education to support people living with long COVID. It also supports research to better understand the causes of and potential treatments for long COVID.

This page provides health-care providers with a centralized resource for the latest evidence and recommendations for managing long COVID symptoms, including a toolkit to help providers support patients living with long COVID, information on the Post-COVID Recovery Clinic and referral criteria.

As a starting point, you can review a visual of a long COVID patient’s care pathway: PC-ICCN Care Pathways.pdf

Clinical care
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Post-COVID Recovery Clinic

Clinic referral process

Primary Care Toolkit

This practical, evidence-informed guide developed by the Post-COVID Recovery Clinic interdisciplinary team, with input from primary care across BC helps primary care providers. It helps care providers: 

  • Identify patients with suspected or confirmed Long COVID
  • Assess symptoms and rule out alternative diagnoses
  • Manage common syndromes (PEM, POTS)
  • Support function, return to work and disability documentation​​

Helpful tools

PCP: Common Questions about Long COVID​

Rapid access to specialist consultation line

eCase

​For information: post-COVID-ICCN@phsa.ca
Education/resources


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Additional resources for clinicians
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Research

The Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network coordinates patient-oriented research that leads to rapid learning and data-sharing to improve care. There are opportunities for both researchers and patients to get involved in long COVID research to support people living with symptoms.

For researchers

For patients
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