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After a diagnosis of long COVID, patients in Colorado shifted from seeking care in hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) to outpatient and specialist visits, with a sharp rise in new prescriptions, suggesting that the diagnosis leads to improved patient care, although healthcare use in this group is still high.

These findings, from a University of Colorado (UC) case-control study, were published this week in BMC Public Health.

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