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Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany
Previous evidence suggested that non-COVID-19-related medical care was reduced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remained unclear whether or to which extent this effect lasted beyond the first wave, or existed in a longer time frame. Here, we consider questionnaire data of the G...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36634093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280292 |
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author | Schepers, Markus Schmidtmann, Irene Zahn, Daniela Wild, Philipp Beutel, Manfred Schuster, Alexander K. Münzel, Thomas Lackner, Karl J. Geschke, Katharina Schattenberg, Jörn Baumkötter, Rieke Yilmaz, Simge Wollschläger, Daniel |
author_facet | Schepers, Markus Schmidtmann, Irene Zahn, Daniela Wild, Philipp Beutel, Manfred Schuster, Alexander K. Münzel, Thomas Lackner, Karl J. Geschke, Katharina Schattenberg, Jörn Baumkötter, Rieke Yilmaz, Simge Wollschläger, Daniel |
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description | Previous evidence suggested that non-COVID-19-related medical care was reduced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remained unclear whether or to which extent this effect lasted beyond the first wave, or existed in a longer time frame. Here, we consider questionnaire data of the Gutenberg-COVID-19 study together with pre-pandemic baseline data of the Gutenberg Health Study concerning the region around Mainz, Germany, to study the effects of the pandemic on the provision of medical care until April 2021. We observed that the proportion of cancelled medical appointments was low and that the fraction of participants with a medical appointment as an indicator for the number of appointments being made was in line with pre-pandemic levels. Appointments were more likely cancelled by the patient (rather than the provider), and more likely cancelled by medical specialists such as dentists or ophthalmologists (rather than GPs). In conclusion, we found some evidence that, at least with regard to realized appointments, the medical system and the provision of medical care were not harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic on a longer time scale. |
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spelling | pubmed-98362842023-01-13 Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany Schepers, Markus Schmidtmann, Irene Zahn, Daniela Wild, Philipp Beutel, Manfred Schuster, Alexander K. Münzel, Thomas Lackner, Karl J. Geschke, Katharina Schattenberg, Jörn Baumkötter, Rieke Yilmaz, Simge Wollschläger, Daniel PLoS One Research Article Previous evidence suggested that non-COVID-19-related medical care was reduced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remained unclear whether or to which extent this effect lasted beyond the first wave, or existed in a longer time frame. Here, we consider questionnaire data of the Gutenberg-COVID-19 study together with pre-pandemic baseline data of the Gutenberg Health Study concerning the region around Mainz, Germany, to study the effects of the pandemic on the provision of medical care until April 2021. We observed that the proportion of cancelled medical appointments was low and that the fraction of participants with a medical appointment as an indicator for the number of appointments being made was in line with pre-pandemic levels. Appointments were more likely cancelled by the patient (rather than the provider), and more likely cancelled by medical specialists such as dentists or ophthalmologists (rather than GPs). In conclusion, we found some evidence that, at least with regard to realized appointments, the medical system and the provision of medical care were not harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic on a longer time scale. Public Library of Science 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9836284/ /pubmed/36634093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280292 Text en © 2023 Schepers et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Schepers, Markus Schmidtmann, Irene Zahn, Daniela Wild, Philipp Beutel, Manfred Schuster, Alexander K. Münzel, Thomas Lackner, Karl J. Geschke, Katharina Schattenberg, Jörn Baumkötter, Rieke Yilmaz, Simge Wollschläger, Daniel Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title | Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title_full | Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title_fullStr | Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title_short | Medical appointments and provision of medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mainz, Germany |
title_sort | medical appointments and provision of medical care during the covid-19 pandemic in mainz, germany |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36634093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280292 |
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