{"id":9820,"date":"2021-05-14T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:53:21","slug":"trends-in-pediatric-primary-care-visits-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/14\/trends-in-pediatric-primary-care-visits-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Pediatric Primary Care Visits during the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A retrospective review of a large US commercial medical claims database found that pediatric primary care visits were 60% lower between March 25 and April 21, 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, and problem-focused visits were 63% lower. Primary care visits and problem-focused visits remained 17% and 31% lower in October 2020 compared to October 2019. The reduction in problem-focused visits was mainly due to a reduction in visits for infectious diseases, including acute respiratory infections and gastroenteritis. The rates of preventive and vaccination visits in October 2020 exceeded those in 2019; however, a cumulative deficit of these visits remained, indicating lower vaccination rates among children and a higher risk for vaccine-preventable disease if this deficit is not addressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schweiberger et al. (May 2021). Trends in Pediatric Primary Care Visits during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academic Pediatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.acap.2021.04.031\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.acap.2021.04.031<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective review of a large US commercial medical claims database found that pediatric primary care visits were 60% lower between March 25 and April 21, 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, and problem-focused visits were 63% lower. Primary care visits and problem-focused visits remained 17% and 31% lower in October 2020 compared&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/14\/trends-in-pediatric-primary-care-visits-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9821,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}