Monitoring New Symptoms After COVID-19 Infection Among Primary Care Patients in New York City

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Figure 1.
Top 15 Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) categories for which patients sought care through their primary care physician. Percentages are reported out of the number of patients with ≥1 newly documented symptom seeking care at each time interval following acute Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).

Table 1.

Characteristics of Patients Presenting with New Symptoms Following Acute Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19; N = 499)

	Patients
	n (%)
Sex
Male	213 (42.7)
Female	286 (57.3)
Age, years
Estimated Mean ± SD	56.1 ± 16.6
18 to 32	49 (9.8)
33 to 47	109 (21.8)
48 to 62	154 (30.9)
63 to 77	132 (26.5)
≥78	55 (11.0)
Race
White	240 (48.1)
Black	110 (22.0)
Asian	11 (2.2)
Other^*	112 (22.5)
Unknown	26 (5.2)
Ethnicity
Hispanic	157 (31.5)
Non-Hispanic	316 (63.3)
Unknown	26 (5.2)
Acute COVID-19
Hospitalized	243 (48.7)
Intensive Care Unit	31 (6.2)
Intubation	25 (5.0)
Dialysis	14 (2.8)
Treatment (Dexamethasone or Remdesivir)	25 (5.0)
≥ 1 Primary Care Visits	174 (34.9)
Telemedicine	151 (30.3)
Post-Acute COVID-19 Primary Care Visits^{^†}
1	361 (72.4)
2	76 (15.2)
≥ 3	62 (12.4)
Pre-existing Conditions
Hypertension	262 (52.5)
Diabetes	134 (26.9)
Obesity	103 (20.6)
Asthma	85 (17.0)
COPD	42 (8.4)
HIV Infection	6 (1.2)

COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ICD-10-CM, International Classification of Disease, Tenth Version, Clinical Modification; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; SD, standard deviation.
↵* Other race includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Other Pacific Islander, or unspecified Other race by patient report.
↵† Number of COVID-19 related primary care visits for a new symptom (defined by ICD-10-CM codes which do not appear during the patient's lookback and first appear between 15 days and 9 months after the patient's first positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test).