Artículo
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| IBECS (España) | ID: ibc-225536
Background:
In the field of health, the year 2020 will be remembered for testing (stressing) all health institutions and their forms of management (centralised and decentralised). The everyday activity of primary and hospital care was significantly altered by the introduction of telephoneconsultations, which reduce the number of visits to health centres or hospitals and are still relevant today in the face of successive waves of the pandemic.
Objective:
To analyse whether population confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the dispensing of medications in community pharmacies and the associated spending during the period March-July 2020 in Andalusia (Spain).
The data obtained from the time series confirmed that there were no significant differences during the studied period between the number of medication containers actually dispensed and the number that would have been expected to be dispensed according to the trend in this variable for the sample period. The expenditure results followed the same pattern.
Conclusions:
The health crisis produced by the COVID-19 lockdown had no impact on medication consumption in Andalusia (AU)