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. 2023 Jan 17;11(12):7743–7749. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1259_22

Table 2.

PHCC services utilization by type of service and the effect of COVID-19 on the utilization in 2020 and 2021 in reference to 2019

Service type No. of visits by type of service 2019 as baseline year No. of utilization Year of 2020 Year of 2021 P


No. of utilization year 2020 Difference in absolute number of service utilization to baseline year 2019 Percentage of change compared to baseline year 2019 No. of utilization 2021 Difference in absolute number of service utilization to baseline year 2019 Percentage of change compared to baseline year 2019
Primary care core services
 Family medicine 2,349,295 2,220,951 −128,344 −5.5 2,492,434 143,139 6.1 <0.001
 Dental services 385,155 269,116 −116,039 −30.1 288,015 −97,140 −25.2 <0.001
 Maternal services 45,905 40,217 −5,688 −12.4 44,564 −1,341 −2.9 <0.001
Primary care preventative services
 Well-baby/immunization services 186,753 167,882 −18,871 −10.1 163,038 −23,715 −12.7 <0.001
 Healthy lifestyle clinics 120,807 73,764 −47,043 −38.9 118,404 −2,403 −2.0 <0.001
 Smoking cessation 3,809 2,280 −1,529 −40.1 3,286 −523 −13.7 <0.001
 SMART annual health check 10,211 3,694 −6,517 −63.8 2,158 −8,053 −78.9 <0.001
 Colorectal cancer screening services 18,868 3,076 −15,792 −83.7 8,821 −10,047 −53.2 <0.001
 Breast cancer screening services 10,552 2,165 −8,387 −79.5 0 −10,552 −100.0 <0.001
Primary care additional services
 Home health care services 90,336 82,920 −7,416 −8.2 83,364 −6,972 −7.7 <0.001
 Specialist Ophthalmology services 90,650 64,703 −25,947 −28.6 85,924 −4,726 −5.2 <0.001
 Specialist ENT services 28,409 22,378 −6,031 −21.2 35,146 6,737 23.7 <0.001
 Specialist dermatology services 26,827 22,033 −4,794 −17.9 32,698 5,871 21.9 <0.001
 Pharmacy services 2,399,709 1,923,128 −476,581 −19.9 2,293,848 −105,861 −4.4 <0.001
 Laboratory services 671,099 992,757 321,658 47.9 1,665,583 994,484 148.2 <0.001
 Radiology services 172,328 137,887 −34,441 −20.0 174,261 1,933 1.1 <0.001
 Mental health specialized services 1,301 1,407 106 8.1 3,046 1,745 134.1 <0.001