Primary care in the time of COVID-19: monitoring the effect of the pandemic and the lockdown measures on 34 quality of care indicators calculated for 288 primary care practices covering about 6 million people in Catalonia

Table 2 Number and percentage of indicators with statistically significant negative and positive effect per month

Indicator type	Effect	February	March	April
Vaccinations	–		2 (50%)	2 (50%)
Vaccinations	+	3 (75%)
Screening	–	2 (28.57%)	5 (71.43%)	5 (71.43%)
Screening	+
Follow-up	–	2 (40%)	5 (100%)	4 (80%)
Follow-up	+
Treatment	–		4 (100%)
Treatment	+	2 (50%)
Control	–		9 (90%)	9 (90%)
Control	+	2 (20%)
Quaternary prevention	–		4 (100%)	3 (75%)
Quaternary prevention	+	3 (75%)		1 (25%)
Total	–	4 (11.8%)	29 (85.3%)	23 (67.7%)
Total	+	10 (29.4%)		1 (2.9%)

Legend: Cells are left blank when no indicator had a negative (−) or positive (+) effect.
All the effects presented are statistically significant. The exact p-value and the confidence intervals of the differences can be found in the Additional file 2.

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