Cohort profile: The SAIL long-term conditions e-cohort (SLTC cohort) investigating area-level changes in healthcare resource use in Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The prioritisation of acute cases of coronavirus during the pandemic caused significant disruption to non-urgent healthcare services, creating a backlog of undiagnosed and untreated individuals with long-term conditions. Previous research has explored the impact of the pandemic on long-term conditions in Wales, but not the geographic variation or underlying area-level characteristics associated with these changes.

Objectives

We created the SAIL long-term conditions e-cohort (SLTC cohort) within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank to describe changes in healthcare service use of individuals living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to facilitate future investigations into the underlying reasons for these changes.

SUBMITTER: Osborne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581028 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature