COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany.
BMC Res Notes
; 14(1): 140, 2021 Apr 16.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1190098
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented to stop the pandemic had a broad impact on our daily lives. Besides work and social life, health care is affected on many levels. In particular, there is concern that attendance in health care programs will drop or hospital admissions will be delayed due to COVID-19-related anxieties, especially in children. Therefore, we compared the number of weekly visits to 78 German pediatric institutions between 2019 and 2020.RESULTS:
We found no significant differences during the first 10 weeks of the year. However, and importantly, from April, the weekly number of visits was more than 35% lower in 2020 than in 2019 (p = 0.005). In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to relate to families´ utilization of outpatient well-child clinics and pediatric practice attendance in Germany.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pediatrics
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Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Child Health Services
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Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
BMC Res Notes
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S13104-021-05562-3
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