Diagnosis of physical and mental health conditions in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, research on the indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of the population and the health-care system is scarce. We aimed to investigate the indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on general practice health-care usage, and the subsequent diagnoses of common physical and mental health conditions in a deprived UK population.

Methods

We did a retrospective cohort study using routinely collected primary care data that was recorded in the Salford Integrated Record between Jan 1, 2010, and May 31, 2020. We extracted the weekly number of clinical codes entered into patient records overall, and for six high-level categories: symptoms and observations, diagnoses, prescriptions, operations and procedures, laboratory tests, and other diagnostic proce

SUBMITTER: Williams R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511209 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature