COVID-19对土耳其紧急服务使用的影响:中断时间序列分析分析
Ümit Çirakli1, Mustafa Orhan2, Burak Sayar3
1Faculty of Health Sciences, İzmir Bakırçay University, Izmir, Turkey.
Internal and emergency medicine
|June 20, 2023
概括
随着COVID-19的流行,土耳其的紧急医疗服务使用受到严重影响,导致最初的申请量大幅下降. 虽然随着时间的推移,这种影响变得微不足道,但大流行改变了紧急服务利用模式.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- "COVID-19"疫情引发了一场前所未有的全球卫生危机.
- 了解其对医疗保健利用的影响对于公共卫生准备至关重要.
- 紧急医疗服务是急性医疗需求的关键接入点.
研究的目的:
- 调查COVID-19大流行对紧急卫生服务利用模式的影响.
- 分析土耳其疫情前和期间紧急服务申请号码的变化.
- 评估这些变化的时间趋势和统计意义.
主要方法:
- 利用中断时间序列分析来评估大流行的影响.
- 分析了来自土耳其公共医院 (2018-2021) 的季度紧急服务申请数据.
- 检查了应用程序数量的周期性变化和统计学意义.
主要成果:
- 在土耳其首例COVID-19病例 (2019年3月) 之后,紧急服务申请的数量显著下降.
- 报告指出,季度波动高达80%,最初的显著影响在随后的时期减少.
- 该研究发现,COVID-19对紧急卫生服务使用的总体影响显著,尽管后来的统计数据发现微不足道.
结论:
- 随着COVID-19的流行,紧急卫生服务的利用情况发生了重大变化. 最初的下降可能反映了非紧急访问的减少和潜在的适当使用服务.
- 随着时间的推移,申请人数呈现波动,这表明疫情期间公共行为和医疗保健寻求模式的演变.
- 研究结果强调,在管理紧急医疗资源时,需要考虑与流行病相关的行为转变.
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