Leipzig University Hospital for Children and Adolescents, LIFE Child, Leipzig University, Ph.-Rosenthal-Str. 27, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Department of Women and Child Health, Center for Pediatric Research, Leipzig University, Liebigstr. 20a, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
BMC Res Notes. 2021 Apr 16;14(1):140. doi: 10.1186/s13104-021-05562-3.
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.
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.
COVID-19 大流行及其实施的措施对我们的日常生活产生了广泛的影响。除了工作和社会生活，医疗保健在多个层面上都受到了影响。特别是，人们担心由于 COVID-19 相关的焦虑，特别是在儿童中，参加医疗保健计划的人数会下降或住院时间会延迟。因此，我们比较了 2019 年和 2020 年每周有 78 家德国儿科机构的就诊次数。
我们发现今年前 10 周没有显著差异。然而，重要的是，从 4 月开始，2020 年每周就诊次数比 2019 年下降了 35%以上（p=0.005）。总之，COVID-19 大流行似乎与德国家庭利用门诊儿童保健诊所和儿科就诊有关。
