Telemedicine Versus In-Person Primary Care: Treatment and Follow-up Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Beyond initial COVID-19 pandemic emergency expansions of telemedicine use, it is unclear how well primary care telemedicine addresses patients' needs.

Objective

To compare treatment and follow-up visits (office, emergency department, hospitalization) between primary care video or telephone telemedicine and in-person office visits.

Design

Retrospective design based on administrative and electronic health record (EHR) data.

Setting

Large, integrated health care delivery system with more than 1300 primary care providers, between April 2021 and December 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic Delta wave).

Patients

1 589 014 adult patients; 26.5% were aged 65 years or older, 54.9% were female, 22.2% were Asian, 7.4% were Black, 22.3% were Hispanic, 4

SUBMITTER: Reed M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11382601 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature