Dutch GP healthcare consumption in COVID-19 heterogeneous regions: an interregional time-series approach in 2020–2021

Background: Many countries observed a sharp decline in the use of general practice services after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, research has not yet considered how changes in healthcare consumption varied among regions with the same restrictive measures but different COVID-19 prevalence. Aim: To investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare consumption in Dutch general practice during 2020 and 2021, among regions with known heterogeneity in COVID-19 prevalence, from a pre-pandemic baseline in 2019. Design & setting: Population-based cohort study using electron... Mehr ...