{"id":14424,"date":"2024-09-02T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2024-09-04T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T06:42:11","slug":"medical-visits-and-mortality-among-dementia-patients-during-the-covid%e2%80%9119-pandemic-compared-to-rates-predicted-from-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/medical-visits-and-mortality-among-dementia-patients-during-the-covid%e2%80%9119-pandemic-compared-to-rates-predicted-from-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical visits and mortality among dementia patients during the COVID\u201119 pandemic compared to rates predicted from 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Kaushik Ghosh et al.<\/p>\n<p>Source BMC<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"Abs1\" class=\"c-article-section__title js-section-title js-c-reading-companion-sections-item\">Abstract<\/h2>\n<div id=\"Abs1-content\" class=\"c-article-section__content\">\n<h3 class=\"c-article__sub-heading\" data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias (ADRD) were especially vulnerable, and modes of medical care delivery shifted rapidly. This study assessed the impact of the pandemic on care for people with ADRD, examining the use of primary, emergency, and long-term care, as well as deaths due to COVID and to other causes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"c-article__sub-heading\" data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods<\/h3>\n<p>Among 4.2 million beneficiaries aged 66 and older with ADRD in traditional Medicare, monthly deaths and claims for routine care (doctors\u2019 office and telehealth visits), inpatient\/emergency department (ED) visits, and long-term care facility use from March or June 2020 through December 2022 are compared to monthly rates predicted from January\u2013December 2019 using OLS and logistic\/negative binomial regression. Correlation analyses examine the association between excess deaths \u2014 due to COVID and non-COVID causes \u2014 and changes in care use in the beneficiary\u2019s state of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/s12877-024-05298-2.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Kaushik Ghosh et al. Source BMC Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias (ADRD) were especially vulnerable, and modes of medical care delivery shifted rapidly. This study assessed the impact of the pandemic on care for people with ADRD, examining the use of primary, emergency, and long-term care, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,128,51,7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cancer-metabolic-syndrome-og","category-brain","category-clinical-manifestations-epidemiology","category-news-commentary","category-scientific-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14427,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}