Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on family health center admissions within the framework of a primary health care institution.
Materials and Methods: The data of this retrospective study were obtained from the patient applications of a two-unit Family Health Center in Ankara (6407 population) between 01/04/2019-01/12/2019 and 01/04/2020-01/12/2020, which registered on the Family Medicine Information System. A total of 12,878 patients were included in our study, 8,315 of whom applied to our family medicine outpatient clinics in 2019 and 4,563 patients who applied in 2020. In the data form, for the specified application years, the total number of applications by years / months, the number of examinations, the number of baby-child, woman, puerperant and pregnant monitoring and immunization services and individually; age, gender, number of applicants, main diagnoses of admission, chronic-psychiatric illnesses status of applicants have been reported.
Results: A total of 12,878 patients were included in study, including 8,315 patients who applied to our family medicine outpatient clinics in 2019 and 4,563 patients in 2020. There is a statistically significant difference according to mean age of the applicants between 2019 and 2020 (p