Post-COVID-Kids Bavaria 2.0

Project description

The follow-up project Post-COVID Kids Bavaria 2.0, coordinated by the Munich Chronic Fatigue Center (MCFC), aims to record and adapt existing care structures and concepts, and to derive and implement standardised processes for the care and research of post-COVID syndrome (PCS). The accompanying scientific evaluations aim to establish a Bavarian care and research network for PCS in children and adolescents that was as sustainable as possible and to prepare for its national rollout. Settings in families, municipalities, schools, training and leisure facilities, as well as regional peculiarities, were also taken into account.

The work packages of Post-COVID Kids Bavaria 2.0 were dedicated to the further development and publication of diagnostic and therapeutic standards, the adaptation of request management at specialized clinics to meet the high demand, the establishment of a post-COVID model ward with pediatric, child and adolescent psychiatric, pain medicine, and ME/CFS-specific expertise, the further development of interdisciplinary telemedical case conferences (expert boards), the piloting of pilot-led, telemedical, and outreach treatment modules, disease-specific training for those affected and their families, the identification of biomarkers, the further rollout of the successful Munich Long COVID Registry into a "Multicenter Long COVID Registry" (MLCR), the analysis of a prospective evaluation cohort, and the cross-sectoral structural analysis to map the care structures in two Bavarian model regions.

Description adapted from project website: see link above.