Reasons for Utilizing Telemedicine during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Internet-Based International Study.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic challenges healthcare services. Concomitantly, this pandemic had a stimulating effect on technological expansions related to telehealth and telemedicine. We sought to elucidate the principal patients' reasons for using telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and the propensity to use it thereafter. Our primary objective was to identify the reasons of the survey participants' disparate attitudes toward the use of telemedicine. We performed an online, multilingual 30-question survey for 14 days during March-April 2021, focusing on the perception and usage of telemedicine and their intent to use it after the pandemic. We analyzed the data to identify the attributes influencing the intent to use telemedicine and built decision trees to highlight the most important relat

SUBMITTER: Benis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8658517 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature