Implementation of an interdisciplinary research model at a tertiary University Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil: post-COVID-19 cohort study
Laura Sampaio de Moura Azevedo, Marina Pires do Rio Caldeira, Moises Victor Ribeiro Nunes, Carolina Monteiro Lobato Del Villar, Denise Lungwtz Ramalho, Thais Suemi Yokoyama, Pedro Rizzi de Oliveira, Thais Mauad, Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Linamara Rizzo Battistella, Emmanuel A Burdmann, Marcia Therez · 2026
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Description
Azevedo and co-authors describe how a São Paulo teaching hospital built an interdisciplinary research program around COVID-19 survivors. Of 1,957 survivors, 749 came to a first follow-up six to eleven months after illness, and eighty-three percent still reported symptoms, chiefly fatigue, dizziness, pain, and breathlessness. Their 2026 report covers the four-year program that grew from that need, with twenty-two study groups sharing one cohort.
A dedicated team ran recruitment, phone consultations, in-person visits, and the database, so no single specialty owned the patients. Of the first group, 523 finished phone consultations, 433 attended the first visit, and 367 the second. The authors say the shared model kept patients engaged, cut the fragmentation that plagues complex studies, and kept data quality high. They offer the structure as a working model for other hospitals studying long, multisystem illness.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Laura Sampaio de Moura Azevedo, Marina Pires do Rio Caldeira, Moises Victor Ribeiro Nunes, Carolina Monteiro Lobato Del Villar, Denise Lungwtz Ramalho, Thais Suemi Yokoyama, Pedro Rizzi de Oliveira, Thais Mauad, Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Linamara Rizzo Battistella, Emmanuel A Burdmann, Marcia Therez |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |