Collateral impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of healthcare resources among people with disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed the collateral impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare service use among people with disabilities.

Methods

We utilized the COVID-19 database from the Korean National Health Insurance Service claims from 2015 until June 2020. We included 5,850 people with disabilities and matched 5,850 without disabilities among those who were neither tested nor diagnosed with COVID-19. We used a quasi-experimental setting with a COVID-19 outbreak as an external event in a difference-difference estimation with matching controls.

Results

Participants with disabilities recorded a larger decrease in the number of claims for total services (2.1 claims per 5 months) upon the COVID-19 pandemic's onset compared to those without disabilities (1.6 claims), and the di

SUBMITTER: Sohn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9381991 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature