Publication date: Dec 26, 2024
Lockdowns and outing restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered attitudes towards hospital visits. This study aimed to investigate changes in long-distance visits outside of secondary healthcare service areas (SHSA) among cancer patients in Japan. Retrospective observational study. Inpatient data from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database. We retrospectively analysed inpatient data from January 2018 to December 2021, extracted from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database. The study examined whether the patient’s hospital was within their residence’s SHSA and compared the admission rates before and after the pandemic. The data of a total of 2 394 760 patients were analysed. Admission rates outside the SHSA significantly decreased after the pandemic compared with prepandemic years (26. 67% and 27. 58%, respectively, p
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Type | Source | Name |
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disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
disease | MESH | cancer |