The Post-COVID-19 Functional Status scale: a tool to measure functional status over time after COVID-19

Frederikus A Klok; Gudula J A M Boon; Stefano Barco; Matthias Endres; J J Miranda Geelhoed; Samuel Knauss; Spencer A Rezek; Martijn A Spruit; Jörg Vehreschild; Bob Siegerink

doi:10.1183/13993003.01494-2020

The Post-COVID-19 Functional Status scale: a tool to measure functional status over time after COVID-19

Eur Respir J. 2020 Jul 2;56(1):2001494. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01494-2020. Print 2020 Jul.

Authors

Frederikus A Klok^{1

2}, Gudula J A M Boon³, Stefano Barco^{2

4}, Matthias Endres^{5

6}, J J Miranda Geelhoed⁷, Samuel Knauss⁶, Spencer A Rezek⁸, Martijn A Spruit^{9

10

11}, Jörg Vehreschild^{12

13

14}, Bob Siegerink^{5

15}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands f.a.klok@LUMC.nl.
² Center for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
³ Dept of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Clinic of Angiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁶ Dept of Neurology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁷ Dept of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁸ Institute of Therapies and Rehabilitation, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
⁹ Dept of Research and Development, CIRO+, Horn, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
¹¹ REVAL Rehabilitation Research Center, BIOMED Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
¹² University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Dept I for Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany.
¹³ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
¹⁴ Dept of Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
¹⁵ Dept of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Abstract

An ordinal tool is proposed to measure the full spectrum of functional outcomes following COVID-19. This “Post-COVID-19 Functional Status (PCFS) scale” can be used for tracking functional status over time as well as for research purposes. https://bit.ly/3cofGaa

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Activities of Daily Living*
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections* / physiopathology
Coronavirus Infections* / psychology
Coronavirus Infections* / rehabilitation
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Humans
Pandemics*
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
Physical Functional Performance*
Pneumonia, Viral* / physiopathology
Pneumonia, Viral* / psychology
Pneumonia, Viral* / rehabilitation
Quality of Life*
Recovery of Function*
SARS-CoV-2
Surveys and Questionnaires