Spatial variation of healthcare resource use in Wales following the COVID-19 pandemic
Timothy Osborne, Rowena Bailey, Amy Mizen, Richard Fry · 2024
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Timothy Osborne and co-authors map how health care use varied across Wales after the COVID-19 pandemic. Their 2024 study uses linked records in a secure Welsh databank. Rates were worked out for 1,909 small areas, from 2017 to 2022. The team compared the three years before the pandemic with the three years after its start. They tested whether like areas clustered in space.
In all, more than 1.27 million people and 7.5 million health contacts for long term conditions were counted. GP contact rates fell by a median of twenty two percent. Hospital admission rates fell by 13.1 percent. Change in GP rates clustered in space more than change in admissions. Area traits, such as social and environmental factors, were linked to hot and cold spots of use.
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| CREATOR | Timothy Osborne, Rowena Bailey, Amy Mizen, Richard Fry |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |