Support for health professionals

• Rapid Access to Specialist Consultation (RACE) app, for urgent questions that require a call back within 2 hours. RACE is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The specialty is listed as “COVID – GIM Post Infection Care”.
• Electronic Consultative Access to Specialist Expertise (eCASE), for e-consults within seven days. Users can submit questions, patient history and attachments via a secure messaging app. The specialty is listed as “Post-COVID-19 Care”.
• BC ECHO for Post-COVID-19 Recovery, a free virtual learning community that gives health-care providers the help and support needed to care for patients experiencing symptoms after COVID-19 infection.

Clinic referral process

Update January 4, 2022: Due to changes in B.C.’s COVID-19 testing guidelines, the PC-ICCN will be reviewing eligibility requirements for the Post-COVID Clinics to ensure continued equitable access to care for patients who continue to experience symptoms longer than 3 months.

To refer a patient to a post-COVID-19 recovery clinic, please fill out the referral form and fax it to central triage: 604-806-8809.

Provincial Post-COVID-19 Recovery Pathway

• This pathway is posted as a tool on BC Pathways. Please note that some of the links are internal on pathways and will require a login to access.

Please note that referrals will only be accepted for:

• Confirmed COVID-19 positive (NAAT or serology) or official epi-linked cases
• Individuals who were symptomatic between January and May 2020, and did not have access to a COVID-19 test

If your patient does not have a positive COVID-19 swab, they will require a positive serology test to be accepted into the Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic. However, referrals will be accepted for patients who were ill between January and May 2020 – even without a positive test – because testing was less accessible during the early stages of the pandemic.

• PCRC Diagnostic Referral Criteria

Additional clinic resources

• Baseline questionnaire for patients to complete, ideally before arriving at a post COVID-19 recovery clinic.
  • Punjabi
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Tagalog
• Follow-up questionnaire
  • Punjabi
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Tagalog

BCCDC is working with provincial and federal partners on surveillance, diagnostic testing and infection control measures for the COVID-19 outbreak. Visit the BCCDC website for information for health care professionals and public health partners.

Clinician resources

• Primary Care Guidelines: Approach to Assessment and Management of Long-term COVID-19 Symptoms
  
• Post-COVID-19 Recovery Care Pathway (accessible through Pathways)
• Mental Health in “Long-COVID” – Two-page PDF resource for GPs
• The Journey to Recovery - Post-COVID-19 Care in BC - Webinar from members of the Post-COVID-19 Recovery Clinic team in Vancouver
• COVID-19 Clinician Resources - Collection from the American Thoracic Society, including post COVID-19 recovery and care
• Inventory of best evidence syntheses by COVID-END – The COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-making compiles 'best' evidence on COVID-19 public health measures, clinical management and health system arrangements.
• The X-Change: Post COVID-19 Recovery Rehab and Persistent Symptoms - Interior Health
• Evaluating and Caring for Patients with Post-COVID Conditions: Interim Guidance