COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany

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 wil...

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Autores principales: Vogel, Mandy, Beger, Christoph, Gausche, Ruth, Jurkutat, Anne, Pfaeffle, Roland, Körner, Antje, Meigen, Christof, Poulain, Tanja, Kiess, Wieland
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8050987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33863371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3
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author Vogel, Mandy
Beger, Christoph
Gausche, Ruth
Jurkutat, Anne
Pfaeffle, Roland
Körner, Antje
Meigen, Christof
Poulain, Tanja
Kiess, Wieland
author_facet Vogel, Mandy
Beger, Christoph
Gausche, Ruth
Jurkutat, Anne
Pfaeffle, Roland
Körner, Antje
Meigen, Christof
Poulain, Tanja
Kiess, Wieland
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description 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3.
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spelling pubmed-80509872021-04-16 COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany Vogel, Mandy Beger, Christoph Gausche, Ruth Jurkutat, Anne Pfaeffle, Roland Körner, Antje Meigen, Christof Poulain, Tanja Kiess, Wieland BMC Res Notes Research Note 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3. BioMed Central 2021-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8050987/ /pubmed/33863371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Vogel, Mandy
Beger, Christoph
Gausche, Ruth
Jurkutat, Anne
Pfaeffle, Roland
Körner, Antje
Meigen, Christof
Poulain, Tanja
Kiess, Wieland
COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title_full COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title_fullStr COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title_short COVID-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in Germany
title_sort covid-19 pandemic and families' utilization of well-child clinics and pediatric practices attendance in germany
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8050987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33863371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3
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