Long COVID Education, Engagement, and Care Management
Long COVID Education, Engagement, and Care Management is a federally-funded project that seeks to provide multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across medical societies to improve provider education and engagement in the care of patients with Long COVID.
Caring for people with Long COVID and related conditions presents unique challenges to the healthcare system, including primary and specialty care providers. While information on Long COVID has increased, there is limited coordination in the development and dissemination of clinical guidance across specialties.
Program Details:
Over the course of a one-year program, CMSS will engage primary care and specialty societies, advanced practice practitioners, patients, and other stakeholders in a series of coordinated activities to improve education and engagement in the care of people with Long COVID. These activities include:
- Empaneling a multidisciplinary Long COVID Expert Panel which will encourage adoption of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) definition and offer greater specificity, when possible.
- Partnering with relevant clinical societies to develop, review, adapt, and disseminate clinical guidance and other educational resources from specialty societies, federal agencies, NASEM, and other high-quality sources on the diagnosis and treatment of Long COVID for both clinicians and the public.
- Defining and championing management of Long COVID and related conditions by primary care and other specialists.
Through cross-specialty collaboration, shared evidence-based information can support coordinated care across primary and specialty care that meets the diverse healthcare needs of patients with Long COVID.
Because Long COVID is relatively new, many clinicians are unfamiliar with how to diagnose and treat it. Our hope is to better equip primary care providers and other clinicians with the information and tools they need to care for their patients with Long COVID.
– Priti Patel, MD, Senior Advisor for Long COVIDCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Long COVID Expert Panel – Call for Applications now open
Applications are due December 13, 2024.
Review the Call for Applications, which includes details on the role, requirements, and term of the Expert Panel.
Please send any questions to LongCOVID@cmss.org.
Press Release:
Contact:
Suzanne Pope, MBA, Senior Advisor
Acknowledgement:
The Long COVID Education, Engagement, and Care Management program is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award to the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). The contents are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of nor endorsement, by CDC/HHS or the U.S. Government.
