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Changes in community and hospital-based health care use during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Thanara RajakulendranR BaloghE LinL PalmaL PlumptreYona Lunsky
Published in: Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR (2022)
During the first COVID-19 year in Ontario, Canada, service use decreased for all service types, except for virtual physician visits. In both years, adults with IDD remained more likely to use services than other adults, with the largest differences in use of mental health hospitalisations and mental health emergency department visits.
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