Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare service use for non-COVID-19 patients in Japan: retrospective cohort study.

Satoko YamaguchiAkira OkadaShinji SunagaKayo Ikeda KurakawaToshimasa YamauchiMasaomi NangakuTakashi Kadowaki

Published in: BMJ open (2022)

The use of healthcare services by non-COVID-19 patients was most affected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020. The number of hospitalisations for respiratory diseases, particularly non-COVID-19 pneumonia and asthma, drastically decreased, while the number of hospitalisations and outpatient chemotherapies for malignant neoplasms or maintenance haemodialysis was less affected.

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