检查COVID-19对慢性脊髓损伤/功能障碍患者医疗保健利用的影响:一项人口研究
Arrani Senthinathan1, Mina Tadrous2,3, Swaleh Hussain3,4
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. arani.senthinathan@utoronto.ca.
Spinal cord
|September 2, 2023
概括
COVID-19显著减少了脊髓损伤/功能障碍 (SCI/D) 患者的医疗保健访问. 虚拟护理增加了,在疫情期间部分恢复了总访问量.
科学领域:
- 医疗服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 康复医学是康复的医学.
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- COVID-19 疫情深刻影响了全球的医疗保健服务.
- 脊髓损伤/功能障碍 (SCI/D) 患者通常需要持续的医疗护理.
- 了解SCI/D医疗保健中与流行病相关的转变对于服务连续性至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 分析COVID-19大流行期间SCI/D患者的医疗保健利用和提供方面的变化.
- 为了比较疫情前,最初的流行病和后来的流行病时期的医疗保健准入.
主要方法:
- 进行了追溯纵向队列时间序列分析.
- 分析了来自加拿大安大略省5754名SCI/D患者 (2004-2014年诊断) 的数据.
- 自主回归集成移动平均 (ARIMA) 建模评估了2015年3月至2022年3月的每月医疗保健利用率和提供情况.
主要成果:
- 最初的流行病发作出现了显著的减少:24%的医生访问,35%的专家访问和30%的泌尿科医生访问.
- 虚拟访问在2020年4月大幅增加,弥补了面对面访问的下降.
- 在最初的流行病发作期间,住院病例减少了58%.
结论:
- 由于COVID-19大流行,SCI/D患者的医疗保健利用率大幅下降,特别是在专家和医院访问方面.
- 虚拟护理的兴起部分缓解了总体医疗保健访问的减少.
- 调查结果强调了需要适应性的医疗保健模型,以确保在公共卫生危机期间为SCI/D人口提供一致的护理.
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