Subproject 1: ‘Post-COVID-19 Monitoring in Routine Health Insurance Data’ (POINTED)

Although a variety of clinical symptoms are associated with post-COVID syndrome, there is still no uniform understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the disease. In addition to the acute illness, some of those infected may suffer from organ damage and lasting impairments of physical and mental health, functionality and quality of life. The need for care services for outpatient or inpatient follow-up care, treatment and rehabilitation measures is currently estimated to be high. In connection with this, there is an increased need for information on post-COVID, especially in general practitioner, pneumological and infectious disease care.

In order to assess the long-term health consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, an evaluation of routine data from the statutory health insurance funds is taking place in the POINTED consortium as part of the German Ministry of Health-funded project ‘Post-acute health consequences of Covid-19’. The analyses are harmonised at the participating institutions and converge in aggregated form at the Center for Evidence-based Health Care (ZEGV) at the TU Dresden. The results to date have been published in a article in PLOS Medicine: Martin Roessler et al.: Post-COVID-19-associated morbidity in children, adolescents, and adults: A matched cohort study including more than 157,000 individuals with COVID-19 in Germany.

In addition, the results were presented at the symposium ‘SHI-insured persons in the dynamic context of COVID-19’ as part of the fourteenth annual conference of the German Society for Health Economics on 29.3.2022.

Project leader Subproject 1: Jochen Schmitt, Center for Evidence-based Health Care, TU Dresden

Subproject team:

Center for Evidence-based Health Care, Dresden University of Technology
Falko Tesch
Franz Ehm
Martin Seifert

InGef - Institute for Applied Health Research Berlin GmbH
Josephine Jacob
Oliver Nagel
Annika Vivirito

Techniker Krankenkasse
Christina König
Friedrich Loser

BARMER Institut für Gesundheitssystemforschung (bifg)
Claudia Schulte
Danny Wende

IKK classic
Simone Menzer

AOK PLUS
Tilo Buschmann

Vandage GmbH
Manuel Batram

Robert Koch Institute
Christin Heidemann
Lukas Reitzle

Project: Post-acute health consequences of COVID-19

The Project “Post-acute health consequences of COVID-19” carries out systematic and continuous synthesis and publishes scientific evidence regarding possible long-term health consequences of a COVID-19 infection.

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Subproject 2: Survey of general practitioners and outpatient paediatricians

Through this nation-wide online survey, information about the experiences of general practitioners and outpatient paediatricians in treating long COVID will be collected and analysed.

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