Table 5 Outpatient specialist visits and cost-intensive diagnostic services
From: How COVID-19 has changed the utilization of different health care services in Poland
Types of health services | N (thousands) | p-value& | % change | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2015/2016–2019 | 2020/ 2019 | 2021/ 2020 | 2021/ 2019 | |||
Specialist visits | |||||||||||||
Conservative consultation | n/d | 76624.8 | 74507.9 | 70278.4 | 72360.4 | 58128.3 | 57937.4 | NS | -19.7% | -0.3% | -19.9% | ||
Interventional consultation | n/d | 8915.2 | 8811.7 | 8413.4 | 9052.2 | 7049.5 | 7074.7 | NS | -22.1% | 0.4 | -21.8% | ||
Cost-intensive diagnostic services | |||||||||||||
Nuclear medicine diagnostics | 96.6 | 101.4 | 98.5 | 101.0 | 108.0 | 86.6 | 106.7 | NS | -19.8% | 23.1% | -1.3% | ||
Gastroscopy | 414.3 | 427.0 | 405.5 | 433.0 | 458.9 | 312.5 | 439.5 | NS | -31.9% | 40.7% | -4.2% | ||
Colonoscopy | 223.7 | 251.3 | 305.4 | 285.0 | 336.3 | 255.6 | 359.4 | 0.024 | -24.0% | 40.6% | 6.9% | ||
Computed tomography | 1118.5 | 1160.7 | 1299.8 | 1265.3 | 1410.8 | 1104.4 | 1532.2 | 0.018 | -21.7% | 38.7% | 8.6% | ||
Magnetic resonance imaging | 743.7 | 774.8 | 910.7 | 996.1 | 1315.6 | 1216.3 | 1664.3 | 0.017 | -7.5% | 36.8% | 26.5% | ||