Long- and Short-Term Trends in Outpatient Attendance by Speciality in Japan: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Asuka Takeda, Yuichi Ando, Jun Tomio, Jayasree (Joy) Basu · 2023
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Asuka Takeda and co-authors chart clinic visits in Japan from 2009 to 2021 in a 2023 study. Visits fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, but how that drop sat within longer trends, by specialty, was unclear. The team used a national database of cost estimates, treating monthly clinic claims as a stand-in for visits, across nine fields from internal medicine to dentistry.
The data held nearly five billion claims. A joinpoint method, which finds where trends bend, showed long-term drops in visits for internal medicine, children's care, surgery, eye care, and ear, nose, and throat care during the pandemic years. For children's care, surgery, and ear, nose, and throat care, every month from March 2020 onward fell below the same month in 2019.
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| CREATOR | Asuka Takeda, Yuichi Ando, Jun Tomio, Jayasree (Joy) Basu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |