French General Practitioners Frequently See Patients with Long-COVID

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General practitioners' reports of persistent symptoms among patients with COVID-19 (n = 651, weighted data).

Table 1.

Characteristics of General Practitioners According to Long COVID Patients (n = 1209, Weighted Data)

	Have You Had 1 or More Patients Coming for a Consultation, at Least 2 to 3 Months after a Confirmed COVID-19 Infection Because of Persistent Symptoms?
	Total		Yes		No		P value
Characteristics^*	(N = 1209)		(N = 651)		(N = 558)
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Sex
Male	736	60.9	388	52.7	348	47.3	.51
Female	473	39.1	263	55.6	210	44.4
Age, years
<50	377	31.2	216	57.2	161	42.8	.44
50 to 59	390	32.2	212	54.3	178	45.7
≥ 60	442	36.6	223	50.4	219	49.6
Workload^†
Low	282	23.3	145	51.5	137	48.5	.44
Intermediate	614	50.8	322	52.4	292	47.6
High	313	25.9	184	58.7	129	41.3
Intensity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the GPs area (French départements)^‡
Low	411	34.0	176	42.9	234	57.1	.002
Moderate	527	43.5	306	58.2	220	41.8
High	272	22.5	168	61.8	104	38.2
Perceived medical severity of COVID-19 for the population^{^f}
Low	332	27.5	144	43.4	188	56.6	.006
Moderate	612	50.6	339	55.4	273	44.6
High	265	21.9	168	63.2	98	36.8

GP, general practitioners; Q; quartile.
↵* The following variables were tested but were not found significant: region, group practice, occasional practice of complementary and alternative medicine, density of healthcare workers in the GPs area (département). French départements are local administrative areas (there are 96 départements in Metropolitan France).
P values represent χ² tests with Rao-Scott correction.
↵† The number of consultations in the previous year were calculated on January 1, 2018. Low represents Q1, indermediate represents Q2 and Q3, and high represents Q4.
↵‡ Excess mortality in percentage compared to the previous year represented as low (< 1%), moderate (1% to 1.8%), and high (>1.8%) as described in Bergeat M, Chaput H, Verger P, Scronias D. (2021). Comment les médecins généralistes prennent-ils en charge les patients atteints de la Covid-19? DREES Etudes et Résultats n°1177. https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/2021-01/er1177_0.pdf.
↵f On a scale of 0 to 10. Low: [0-4]; moderate: [5-7]; high: [8-10].
Source of the data: Representative national panel of French GPs; participants responded to an online cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey between October 6, 2020, and November 15, 2020.