Trends in Pediatric Primary Care Visits During the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Months after the declaration of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) national emergency, visits among children remained suppressed for unclear reasons, which we sought to understand by examining child visit rates.

Methods

Using de-identified claims data for children <18 years old from OptumLabs® Data Warehouse, a large commercial claims database, we compared monthly primary care visit and vaccination rates from January-October 2020 to January-October 2018 and 2019. Visit rates were analyzed by visit reason and by the month after (eg, month +1) the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration using a series of child-level Poisson regression models.

Results

There were 3.4, 3.4, and 3.1 million children in 2018, 2019, and 2020 cohorts, respectively. Compa

SUBMITTER: Schweiberger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561008 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature