Outpatient hospital attendances in people with rheumatoid arthritis during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: a cohort study in three nations of the UK
For the first time, we compared healthcare use across three UK nations and found rheumatology outpatient appointments had not recovered to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, particularly in Scotland and England.
Authors
- Jim M. Wild (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7246-8660)
- Ellen J. Thompson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2118-821X)
- Amelia Green (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7246-2074)
- Bożena Wielgoszewska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-5236)
- Rochelle Knight (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4128-6821)
- Syed Ahmar Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5672-0443)
- Francisco J. Pérez‐Reche (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5663-5249)
- Samantha Ip (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-6727)
- Ben Butler-Cole
- Jane Maddock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7975-4221)
- Daniel J. Grint (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8001-6544)
- Lorna Philip (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-2798)
- Michelle D. Stevenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-4481)
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- Elena Rafeti
- Lidia Nigrelli
- John Kellas
- Anika Knueppel
- Herbert Annie
- Arun Kanagaratnam
- Charis Bridger-Staatz
- Kevin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9343-6473)
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- Marwa A.L. Arab
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- Iain Dillingham
- Stephen L. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6885-2643)
- Sebastian C J Bacon
- Jess Morley
- Alex Walker
- Kirsteen C Campbell
- Angel YS Wong
- Lizzie Huntley
- Ian Wood
- Ian Douglas
- Teri North
- Brian MacKenna
- Fintan McArdle
- Amir Mehrkar
- Sebastian Bacon
- Dave Evans
- Farzana Kausir
- Ian Allotay
Institutions
- University of London (GB)
- University of Aberdeen (GB)
- Angkor Hospital for Children (KH)
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (GB)
- Swansea University (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Arthritis UK (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Lara D. Veeken
- Published
- 2025-10-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaf559
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00