RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Identifying patients at risk of post-discharge complications related to COVID-19 infection JF Thorax JO Thorax FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society SP 408 OP 411 DO 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215861 VO 76 IS 4 A1 Jocelin Hall A1 Katherine Myall A1 Jodie L Lam A1 Thomas Mason A1 Bhashkar Mukherjee A1 Alex West A1 Amy Dewar YR 2021 UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/76/4/408.abstract AB SARS-CoV-2 infection is a multisystem disease with post-discharge sequelae. We report early follow-up data from one UK hospital of the initial 200 hospital inpatients with slow recovery from the condition. At 4 weeks post-discharge, 321/957 survivors (34%) had persistent symptoms. A structured outpatient clinical assessment protocol was designed, and outcomes from the first 200 patients seen 4–6 weeks post-discharge are presented here. In 80/200 (40%), we identified at follow-up a cardiorespiratory cause of breathlessness, including persistent parenchymal abnormality (64 patients), pulmonary embolism (four patients) and cardiac complications (eight patients). These findings occurred both in patients who had intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and those who had been managed on the ward, although patients requiring ICU admissions were more likely to have a significant cardiorespiratory cause found for their breathlessness, risk ratio 2.8 (95% CI 1.5 to 5.1).