In mid-October last year, the diagnosis code U09.9 was introduced for these patients, which stands for post-infectious illness after covid-19, or postcovid.
- The use of the code for postcovid, U09.9, has increased steadily every month since it was introduced in mid-October 2020, says Anna Bennet Bark, head of unit at the National Board of Health and Welfare.
As of March, 2,379 patients with the postcovid code had been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare's patient register, of whom 1,232 were men, or 52%, and 48%, or 1,147, were women. [...]
The survey shows that from mid-October 2020 to March 2021, 6 168 patients had received the postcovid diagnosis in public primary care. Of these, 3,986, or 65%, were women, and the remaining 35%, or 2,182 people, were men. Of those diagnosed in primary care, 1 per cent were aged under 18 and 6 per cent were aged 70 or over, i.e. 93 per cent were aged 18-69. In specialised care, younger and older people made up much larger proportions, 5% and 26% respectively.
The regions [local healthcare systems] were also asked to indicate the proportion of the total number of visits to primary care carried out in the region and in private practice, in order to provide a rough estimate of the total number of people with a postcovid diagnosis. Based on this data, the number of patients with postcovid in private primary care is estimated to be around 5 000.
- This would mean that
a total of more than 11 000 patients in primary care have been diagnosed with post-covid during this period,' says Anna Bennet Bark.
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(published by TCO/The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees which is comprised of 13 affiliated trade unions)
