TY  - JOUR
AU  - Michalowsky, Bernhard
AU  - Hoffmann, Wolfgang
AU  - Bohlken, Jens
AU  - Kostev, Karel
TI  - Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on disease recognition and utilisation of healthcare services in the older population in Germany: a cross-sectional study.
JO  - Age & ageing
VL  - 50
IS  - 2
SN  - 1468-2834
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - DZNE-2021-01138
SP  - 317 - 325
PY  - 2021
AB  - There is little evidence about the utilisation of healthcare services and disease recognition in the older population, which was urged to self-isolate during the COVID-19 lockdown.We aimed to describe the utilisation of physician consultations, specialist referrals, hospital admissions and the recognition of incident diseases in Germany for this age group during the COVID-19 lockdown.Cross-sectional observational study.1,095 general practitioners (GPs) and 960 specialist practices in Germany.2.45 million older patients aged 65 or older.The number of documented physician consultations, specialist referrals, hospital admissions and incident diagnoses during the imposed lockdown in 2020 was descriptively analysed and compared to 2019.Physician consultations decrease slightly in February (-2
KW  - Aged
KW  - COVID-19: diagnosis
KW  - COVID-19: epidemiology
KW  - COVID-19: prevention & control
KW  - COVID-19: therapy
KW  - Communicable Disease Control: organization & administration
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Delayed Diagnosis: adverse effects
KW  - Delayed Diagnosis: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Delivery of Health Care: methods
KW  - Delivery of Health Care: organization & administration
KW  - Female
KW  - Germany: epidemiology
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Noncommunicable Diseases: epidemiology
KW  - Noncommunicable Diseases: therapy
KW  - Organizational Innovation
KW  - Patient Acceptance of Health Care: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Quarantine: methods
KW  - SARS-CoV-2
KW  - COVID-19 (Other)
KW  - healthcare utilisation (Other)
KW  - lockdown (Other)
KW  - older people (Other)
KW  - recognition (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:33205150
C2  - pmc:PMC7717143
DO  - DOI:10.1093/ageing/afaa260
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/156006
ER  -