Telemedicine visits requiring follow-up in-person visits at an urban academic family medicine centre.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was rapidly implemented in care settings globally. To understand what factors affect the successful completion of telemedicine visits in our urban, academic family medicine clinic setting, we analysed telemedicine visits carried out during the pandemic.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective chart review of telemedicine visits from 2 clinical units within a family medicine centre. To investigate the association between incomplete visits and various factors (age, gender, presenting complaints, physician level of training [resident or staff] and patient-physician relational continuity), we performed a multivariable logistic regression on data from August 2020, February 2021, and May 2021. An incomplete visit is one

SUBMITTER: Arsenault M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11461682 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature