Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the incidence and mortality of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales

Background The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing national lockdowns have dramatically changed the healthcare landscape. The pandemic’s impact on people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains poorly understood. We hypothesised that the UK-wide lockdown restrictions were associated with...

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Published in:	BMC medicine Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 124 - 10
Main Authors:	Alsallakh, Mohammad A., Sivakumaran, Shanya, Kennedy, Sharon, Vasileiou, Eleftheria, Lyons, Ronan A., Robertson, Chris, Sheikh, Aziz, Davies, Gwyneth A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 17.05.2021 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Air pollution Biomedicine Care and treatment Chronic illnesses Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Complications and side effects Control Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - complications COVID-19 - prevention & control COVID-19 lockdown Datasets Emergency medical care Emergency medical services Emergency Service, Hospital Epidemics Fatalities Health care Hospital care Hospitalization Humans Impact analysis Incidence Interrupted Time Series Analysis Length of stay Lung diseases Lung diseases, Obstructive Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mortality Obstructive lung disease Outdoor air quality Pandemics Primary care Primary Health Care Public health Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality Quarantine Reduction Research Article SARS-CoV-2 Scotland Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Shelter in place Statistical analysis Statistics Time series Trends Wales Scotland Wales United Kingdom > UK Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COVID-19 lockdown
ISSN:	1741-7015, 1741-7015
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