カナダの4つの州で2018年から2020年の間に認知症患者の医療サービス利用における性差のメタ分析
María Alejandra Rodríguez-Duarte1, Isabelle Marie Vedel1,2, Deniz Cetin-Sahin2
1Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|September 4, 2025
まとめ
認知症の男性は女性よりも急性ケアを利用し 専門医の診察や入院の割合も高かった これらの性差は,カナダにおけるCOVID-19のパンデミック前およびその間も続いた.
科学分野:
- 高齢者医療と医療サービス研究
- 公衆衛生と健康の公平性
- 認知症のケアと神経変性疾患
背景:
- 認知症患者のための 公平な医療へのアクセスが不可欠です
- 認知症患者の医療利用における 性別による格差が示されています
- COVID-19 パンデミックはこれらの既存の医療の不平等を悪化させたのかもしれません.
研究 の 目的:
- 認知症患者の間での 健診および急性ケアサービスの利用における 性別による差異を定量化する.
- パンデミック期間を含む2018年から2020年の間にカナダの4つの州でこれらの違いを分析する.
主な方法:
- ケベック,オンタリオ,アルバータ,サスカチュワンのリンクされた健康管理データを利用した遡及的マルチコホート研究.
- 認知症と診断された65歳以上のコミュニティに住む3つのコホート (2018年,2019年,2020) の分析.
- 家族医の診察,認知専門医の診察,他の専門医の診察,緊急診察室の診察,入院の性別別率の計算,その後,発生率の差異のメタ解析.
主要な成果:
- 3つのコホート年にわたって,保健医療利用の有意な性別差が観察されました.
- 認知症の男性では,他の専門医や救急治療室への訪問,全原因の入院率が女性よりも高かった.
- これらの急性ケア利用の格差は,COVID-19のパンデミックを含む研究期間中一貫していました.
結論:
- 認知症患者の医療利用における性別による一貫した格差は,パンデミック前とパンデミック中に,カナダの4つの州で明らかでした.
- 急性ケアサービスでは 性別による利用の違いが特に顕著でした.
- 性別の違いに対処することは 公平で 適応した認知症のケア戦略を開発し 医療の質と患者体験を改善するために不可欠です
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