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The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the provision of healthcare services throughout the world. Restrictions on meeting other people and other infection control measures meant that many ‘routine’ appointments could not be carried out as expected. There is a concern that, even now, services have not returned to pre-pandemic levels and this could be having a knock-on effect on ensuring the timely detection of significant chronic conditions. Using national primary care records in England, Frederick Ho, Caroline Dale and colleagues explore this concern and report on how routine measurements for cardiometabolic risk factors have changed over the course of the pandemic and in the recovery phase.
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Citation: (2024) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 21(11) December 2024. PLoS Med 21(11): ev21.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v21.i11
Published: December 4, 2024
Copyright: © 2024 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the provision of healthcare services throughout the world. Restrictions on meeting other people and other infection control measures meant that many ‘routine’ appointments could not be carried out as expected. There is a concern that, even now, services have not returned to pre-pandemic levels and this could be having a knock-on effect on ensuring the timely detection of significant chronic conditions. Using national primary care records in England, Frederick Ho, Caroline Dale and colleagues explore this concern and report on how routine measurements for cardiometabolic risk factors have changed over the course of the pandemic and in the recovery phase.
Image Credit: Pavel Danilyuk, Pexels