Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis
Author(s) -
Rachel Mulholland,
Rachael Wood,
Helen R. Stagg,
Colin Fischbacher,
Jaime Villacampa,
Colin R Simpson,
Eleftheria Vasileiou,
Colin McCowan,
Sarah J. Stock,
Annemarie B Docherty,
Lewis Ritchie,
Utkarsh Agrawal,
Chris Robertson,
Josie Murray,
Fiona Mackenzie,
Aziz Sheikh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the royal society of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1758-1095
pISSN - 0141-0768
DOI - 10.1177/0141076820962447
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , confidence interval , emergency medicine , covid-19 , outbreak , medical emergency , interrupted time series analysis , health care , pediatrics , demography , family medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , statistics , mathematics , pathology , virology , economics , economic growth , sociology
Following the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and the subsequent global spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), health systems and the populations who use them have faced unprecedented challenges. We aimed to measure the impact of COVID-19 on the uptake of hospital-based care at a national level.
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