Primary Care Telemedicine and Care Continuity: Implications for Timeliness and Short-term Follow-up Healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effectiveness of telemedicine by a patient's own primary care provider (PCP) versus another available PCP is understudied.

Objective

Examine the association between primary care visit modality with timeliness and follow-up in-person healthcare, including variation by visits with the patient's own PCP versus another PCP.

Design and participants

Cohort study including primary care visits in a large, integrated delivery system in 2022.

Measures

Outcomes included timeliness (visit completed within 7 days of scheduling) and in-person follow-up (PCP visits, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations) within 7 days of the index PCP visit. Logistic regression measured the association between visit modality (in-person, video, and audio-only teleme

SUBMITTER: Graetz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436533 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature