Assessing optometric care delivered by telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) forced many eye care providers to implement telehealth services while in-person visits were reserved for essential and/or emergency eye care.

Objective

This study documents how an optometry group successfully implemented telehealth to care for patients during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Design

Retrospective, comparative case series.

Methods

Records were reviewed for patients seen in an academic optometry clinic from 23 March through 7 April 2020, the period of the Massachusetts stay-at-home advisory issued in response to COVID-19. Patients who completed telehealth visits were compared with those who received in-person care. Services delivered by telehealth included a

SUBMITTER: Pidgeon JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature