ArticleBMC health services research2023
Diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic: are people getting access to the right level of care?
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- Examining HbA1c in Frail Older Adults: A Linked Data Cohort Study.Australasian journal on ageing · 2026Article
- Healthcare renunciation among Italian older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the PASSI d'Argento surveillance system.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Antidiabetic Medicines Utilisation During Pre-Pandemic, Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Period of COVID-19-Data for Bulgarian Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of an Innovative Primary and Secondary Diabetes Clinic in Western Sydney.International journal of integrated careArticle
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introductionAvoidance of health services, in particular hospital and community services, is problematic for people with diabetes. Evidence has demonstrated that such missed attendances are associated with worse health, faster declines in functioning, and higher rates of mortality long-term. This paper investigated the impact of the pandemic on healthcare access across community and hospital care, including Virtual Care (VC) using several large datasets of General Practice (GP) and hospital services in western Sydney.
methodsA retrospective cohort study using a time-series database of 173,805 HbA
resultsThe average rate of diabetes in Emergency Department fell from 17.8% pre-pandemic to 11% after January 2020 (p < 0.001). This rate varied substantially over time, and correlated well with large outbreaks of COVID-19 in the state. Conversely, attendances of people with diabetes to GP clinics, especially using VC services, increased substantially over the pandemic period. DISCUSSION/
conclusionDuring the pandemic there was a substantial avoidance of hospital care by patients with diabetes. However, this may have been replaced by VC offered in the community for those with less severe diseases.
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