TY - JOUR
AU - Alsallakh, Mohammad A.
AU - Sivakumaran, Shanya
AU - Kennedy, Sharon
AU - Vasileiou, Eleftheria
AU - Lyons, Ronan A.
AU - Robertson, Chris
AU - Sheikh, Aziz
AU - Davies, Gwyneth A.
AU - EAVE II Collaboration
PY - 2021
DA - May
TI - 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
JO - BMC Medicine
VL - 19
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02000-w
AB - 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 reductions in severe COPD exacerbations. We provide the first national level analyses of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdown on severe COPD exacerbations resulting in emergency hospital admissions and/or leading to death as well as those recorded in primary care or emergency departments.
PB - Springer Nature
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/impact-of-covid19-lockdown-on-the-incidence-and-mortality-of-acute-exacerbations-of-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease(7e74a8bf-8342-4a1c-be56-4ecb9140e65c).html
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER