Service-level measures to be used in LOCOMOTION sites
| Measure | How measured | Type of data |
| Evidence of patient-focused iterative change to clinic services | Ongoing data collection throughout the study from interactions with sites (principal investigators, research fellows, patients and local multidisciplinary teams) and simple summary statistics will provide evidence of changes to and evaluation of long COVID clinic services. | Qualitative and quantitative |
| Patient experiences of efforts to reduce inequalities | Interviews with patients and key informants will explore symptom recognition, health-seeking behaviour, care pathways, motivations/disincentives to accessing healthcare support, attitudes towards long COVID and stigma. | Qualitative |
| Patient experiences of tailored vocational rehabilitation as per guidelines | Qualitative data from interviews with patients, professionals involved in long COVID clinics and key informants will explore the impact of long COVID on return-to-work and job retention, including access to and from work and within work, adaptations required for work. | Qualitative |
| Cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) | Cost-effectiveness of alternative models of service delivery will be expressed in terms of incremental cost per QALY. | Quantitative |
| Cost-effectiveness acceptability curves | Cost-effective acceptability curves will be used to show the probability of cost-effectiveness of each of the evaluated strategies at alternative cost-effectiveness thresholds held by decision makers, | Quantitative |
LOCOMOTION, LOng COvid Multidisciplinary consortium Optimising Treatments and servIces acrOss the NHS.