The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare services utilization among people living with HIV in Catalonia, Spain: A population-based cohort study

IF 2.6 4区医学 Q3 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.eimc.2023.09.001

Yi-Hua Pan , Daniel K. Nomah , Marcos Montoro-Fernandez , Sergio Moreno-Fornés , Yesika Díaz , Jordi Aceitón , Andreu Bruguera , Josep M. Llibre , Pere Domingo , Arkaitz Imaz , Ingrid Vilaró , Vicenç Falcó , Juliana Reyes-Urueña , José M. Miro , Jordi Casabona , the PISCIS Cohort Study Group

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Abstract

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare services usage. We estimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare services utilization among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Catalonia, Spain.

Methods

We accessed public healthcare usage in HIV units, primary care, hospitals, and emergency departments among 17,738 PLWH in the PISCIS cohort from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. We performed an interrupted time series analysis using the autoregressive integrated moving average to estimate the effect of COVID-19 on medical visits and HIV monitoring among PLWH.

Results

A non-significant decrease of 17.1% (95% CI: [−29.4, 0.4]) in overall medical visits was observed during the lockdown, followed by a steady resumption until the end of 2020. Three health facilities presented statistically significant declines in visits during the lockdown: HIV units (−44.8% [−56.7, −23.6]), hospitals (−40.4% [−52.8, −18.1]), and emergency departments (−36.9% [−47.0, −21.9]); thereafter, the visits have begun to increase steadily but not to previous levels as of December 2020. In contrast, primary care visits remained unchanged during the lockdown by 1.9% (95% CI: −13.5, 23.9). CD4 cell (54.2% [95% CI: −64.4, −36.0]) and HIV RNA viral load (53.1% [95% CI: −62.9, −36.1]) laboratory monitoring reduced significantly during the lockdown.

Conclusion

COVID-19 lockdowns significantly disrupted in-person healthcare services usage among PLWH. The reduction in healthcare utilization however did not affect primary care services. Despite services gradually rebounding to pre-pandemic levels, it is imperative to effectively prepare for future pandemics and implement measures to ensure continuous provision of care to PLWH during pandemic lockdowns.

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COVID-19大流行扰乱了医疗服务的使用。我们估计了COVID-19大流行对西班牙加泰罗尼亚艾滋病毒感染者（PLWH）医疗服务利用的影响。方法：从2017年1月1日至2020年12月31日，我们对PISCIS队列中17738名PLWH的HIV单位、初级保健、医院和急诊科的公共卫生保健使用情况进行了调查。我们使用自回归综合移动平均进行了中断时间序列分析，以估计COVID-19对PLWH中就诊和艾滋病毒监测的影响。结果在封锁期间，总体就医次数无显著下降17.1% (95% CI:[−29.4,0.4])，随后稳步恢复，直到2020年底。在封锁期间，有三家卫生机构的就诊人数出现了统计上的显著下降：艾滋病毒病房（- 44.8%[- 56.7,- 23.6]）、医院（- 40.4%[- 52.8,- 18.1]）和急诊科（- 36.9% [- 47.0,- 21.9]）；此后，访问开始稳步增加，但没有达到截至2020年12月的水平。相比之下，初级保健访问在封锁期间保持不变，为1.9%（95%置信区间：- 13.5,23.9）。在封锁期间，实验室监测CD4细胞（54.2% [95% CI: - 64.4, - 36.0]）和HIV RNA病毒载量（53.1% [95% CI: - 62.9, - 36.1]）显著下降。结论新冠肺炎疫情封锁显著影响了公共卫生机构的现场医疗服务使用。然而，医疗保健利用的减少并未影响初级保健服务。尽管服务逐渐恢复到大流行前的水平，但必须有效地为未来的大流行做好准备，并采取措施确保在大流行封锁期间继续向PLWH提供护理。

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Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica 医学-传染病学

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

8.00%

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194

审稿时长

29 days

期刊介绍： Hoy está universalmente reconocida la renovada y creciente importancia de la patología infecciosa: aparición de nuevos agentes patógenos, de cepas resistentes, de procesos con expresión clínica hasta ahora desconocida, de cuadros de una gran complejidad. Paralelamente, la Microbiología y la Infectología Clínicas han experimentado un gran desarrollo como respuesta al reto planteado por la actual patología infecciosa. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica es la Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad Española SEIMC. Cumple con la garantía científica de esta Sociedad, la doble función de difundir trabajos de investigación, tanto clínicos como microbiológicos, referidos a la patología infecciosa, y contribuye a la formación continuada de los interesados en aquella patología mediante artículos orientados a ese fin y elaborados por autores de la mayor calificación invitados por la revista.