The Impact of Telemedicine on Sexual Medicine at a Major Academic Center During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Telemedicine has the potential to improve access to care; however, its utility in the field of sexual medicine remains in question.

Aim

To examine the importance of video visits for the treatment of male sexual medicine at our academic center during the period of peak telemedicine use in April 2020.

Methods

We collected and compared deidentified data from all nonprocedure, adult outpatient encounters conducted as either office visits in April 2019 (n = 1,949) or video visits in April 2020 (n = 608). The primary International Classification of Diseases codes (ICD-10) labeled as diagnoses from all encounters were collected, with most encounters linked to several disease codes (n = 4,584). Demographic data were also collected. We performed comparative analys

SUBMITTER: Rabinowitz MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8240353 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature