Telemedicine and visit completion among people with HIV during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic compared with prepandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Telemedicine became the primary mode of delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe the impact of telemedicine on access to care for people with HIV (PWH) by comparing the proportion of PWH engaged in care prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design and methods

We conducted an observational analysis of patients enrolled in the Johns Hopkins HIV Clinical Cohort, a single-center cohort of patients at an urban HIV subspecialty clinic affiliated with an academic center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the clinic transitioned from in-person to mostly telemedicine visits. We compared patients receiving care in two time periods. The prepandemic period included 2010 people with at least one visit scheduled between 1 September 2019 and 15 March 2020. The

SUBMITTER: El-Nahal WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795480 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature