Aberrations in medically certified sick leave and primary healthcare consultations in Norway in 2023 compared to pre-COVID-19-pandemic trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2022, Norway has employed a vaccine-only COVID-19 strategy. Primary healthcare in Norway uses International Classification of Primary Care version 2 (ICPC-2) codes. This study aims to systematically compare medically certified sick leave and primary healthcare consultations in 2023 with the pre-pandemic 2010-2019 trends, and subsequently estimate the magnitude of these changes.

Methods

For the respective outcomes of (A) working person-years lost to medically certified sick leave (WYLSL) and (B) number of primary healthcare consultations, 556 and 85 ICPC-2 code combinations were extracted from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration's sick leave registry and the Norwegian Syndromic Surveillance System. For each ICPC-2 code combination, a Bayesian line

SUBMITTER: White RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11495095 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature