Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Postdischarge Patients With COVID-19 in Tehran, Iran: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study (Tele-COVID-19 Study)

Laya Jalilian Khave   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Mohammad Vahidi   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Dorsa Shirini   ¹ , MD ;   Ghazal Sanadgol   ¹ , MD ;   Farzad Ashrafi   ² , MD ;   Mehran Arab-Ahmadi   ³ , MD ;   Alireza Fatemi   ⁴ , MD ;   Minoosh Shabani Barzegar   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Taha Hassanzadeh   ¹ , MD ;   Behandokht Rezaei   ¹ , MD ;   Alireza Zali   ⁴ , MD ;   Davood Ommi   ⁴ , MD ;   Shabnam Nohesara   ⁶ , MD ;   Reza Jalili Khoshnood   ⁴ , MD ;   Saeed Abdi   ⁴ , MD ;   Ali Pirsalehi   ⁴ , MD ;   Ehsan Masarat   ⁷ , MD ;   Mostafa Shokoohi   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Mohammad Karamouzian   ^{9, 10} , MSc, DVM

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² Functional Neurosurgery Research Center, Shohada Tajrish Neurosurgical Center of Excellence, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

³ Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Taleghani Hospital Research Development Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁶ Mental Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁷ Kashan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Kashan, Iran

⁸ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection Surveillance Research Center, and World Health Organization Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

*these authors contributed equally