Primary Care by Telehealth and Care Quality in the Veterans Health Administration.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

As telehealth (ie, telephone and video) becomes a larger component of primary care, understanding its impact on care quality is critical.

Objective

To evaluate whether the proportion of primary care received via telehealth is associated with differences in quality-of-care outcomes among veterans who frequently use primary care.

Design, setting, and participants

This is a retrospective cohort study of veterans empaneled to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 (October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2023) with 3 or more primary care visits. Telehealth proportion categories were none (0.0% primary care visits telehealth), low (>0.0% to <28.6%), intermediate (28.6% to <50.0%), or high (≥50.0%).

Exposure

Proportion of

SUBMITTER: Staloff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12914489 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature