Accessibility of Virtual Visits for Urgent Care Among US Hospitals: a Descriptive Analysis

Goodman, Christopher W; Brett, Allan S.

doi:10.1007/s11606-020-05888-x

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“…These variations in use could be due to the underlying differences in various social drivers, patient and provider preferences, technological literacy, access to a reliable internet connection, and patient condition complexity and medical visit type (e.g., evaluation, diagnostic, consultation, or intervention). 7,[36][37][38] These findings are consistent with the existing literature, which largely suggests that being younger, white, higher income, and female are associated with higher utilization of telemedicine. 34,35,39,40 However, these patterns appear to vary by institution and patient population.…”

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Understanding Telemedicine's “New Normal”: Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics

Drake

Lian

Cameron

et al. 2022

Telemedicine and e-Health

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Background: Our objective was to examine the variation in telemedicine adoption by specialty line and patient demographic characteristics after the initial peak period of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic when in-person visits had resumed and visit volume returned to prepandemic levels. Materials and Methods: Aggregated encounter data were extracted for six service lines (dermatology, psychiatry, endocrinology, cardiology, orthopedics, and nonurgent primary care) in an integrated health system across three time periods:

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confidence: 87%

Understanding Telemedicine's “New Normal”: Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics

Drake

Lian

Cameron

et al. 2022

Telemedicine and e-Health

126

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“…Finally, whether and how physicians and practices can sustain the use of remote care delivery strategies into the future deserves further investigation because other factors such as patient barriers to telehealth [ 37 ] and reimbursement concerns [ 27 ] are likely to influence the accessibility of telehealth moving forward [ 17 , 38 , 39 ]. More research will be necessary to understand how remote care delivery options will impact physician workflows and relationships in their practice settings.…”

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Doctoring from home: Physicians’ perspectives on the advantages of remote care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic

DePuccio

Gaughan²,

Shiu‐Yee³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home orders as well as shortages of personal protective equipment forced primary care physicians (PCPs) to transition rapidly from in-person visits to telehealth. While telehealth expanded extensively in a short period of time, research about the consequences of the shift to remote care is lacking. The objective of this qualitative study was to examine how telehealth benefited PCPs and their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods From July to August 2020, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 PCPs associated with a single academic medical center to examine their perspectives about delivering care remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. All interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed using deductive thematic analysis. Results PCPs identified several benefits of remote care delivery for both physicians and patients. They indicated that (1) patients were reassured that they could receive safe and timely care, (2) remote visits were convenient for patients, (3) patients were comfortable receiving care at home, and (4) video visits enhanced patient- and family-centered care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants also noted that (1) telehealth accommodated working from home, (2) physicians were equitably reimbursed for telehealth visits, and that (3) telehealth promoted physician work-life balance. Conclusions Our data provides preliminary evidence that PCPs and their patients had positive experiences with remote care during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Physicians identified opportunities by which telehealth could enhance the delivery of patient-centered care by allowing them to see patients’ home environments and to engage family members and caregivers during telehealth visits. More research is needed to understand how to sustain these benefits beyond the global COVID-19 pandemic and ensure patients’ needs are met.

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“…On the other hand, VUC is provision of remote medical services for critical, immediate, or emergency conditions. [ 67 68 ] The use of NUC[ 7 17 27 28 29 30 31 34 37 38 39 41 42 43 44 45 48 49 50 52 56 ] is more prominent than the emergency applications VUC during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 21 31 39 40 45 50 ] Among tele-COVID services, tele-triage,[ 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 ] tele-quarantine,[ 27 28 34 36 44 45 46 ] and tele-education (distance learning)[ 7 31 36 40 41 42 43 ] provision, particularly via social media platforms,[ 27 37 39 41 44 45 47 56 61 ] were more significant for tele-COVID.…”

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Systematic review on telemedicine platforms in lockdown periods

Shanbehzadeh

Kazemi-Arpanahi²,

Kalkhajeh

et al. 2021

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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With the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, the transformation of the care delivery model from conventional in-person (face to face) to largely virtual or remote care has been accelerated to appropriately allocate resources and constrain the spread of the virus. In this regard, telemedicine is a breakthrough technology to battle against the COVID-19 emergency. Therefore, we sought to identify the telemedicine applications in the COVID-19 pandemic (tele-COVID) according to interaction modes, transmission modalities, and disease categories. This systematic review was conducted through searching five databases including PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Web of Science, and Science Direct. Inclusion criteria were studies clearly outlining any use of telemedicine interactive mode during the COVID-19 pandemic, written in English language and published in peer-reviewed journals in 2020. Finally, 43 articles met the inclusion out of the 1118 search results. Telemedicine provides a diversity of interaction modes and modalities affordable by patients and physicians including short message service, E-mail and web portals, secure telephone calls or VOIP, video calls, interactive mobile health applications (m-Health), remote patient monitoring, and video conferencing. Transmission of video data using synchronized video calls via common social media had the highest and exchange of data using store-forward service via secure messaging technology and prerecorded multimedia had the lowest popularity for virtual disease management during the COVID-19 outbreak. Selection of telemedicine communication services and interaction modes with regard to its use-case, disease category, and application plays a significant role in the success of remote disease management infrastructures in this scenario and their implication for a better future healthcare system.

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Accessibility of Virtual Visits for Urgent Care Among US Hospitals: a Descriptive Analysis

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Understanding Telemedicine's “New Normal”: Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics

Understanding Telemedicine's “New Normal”: Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics

Doctoring from home: Physicians’ perspectives on the advantages of remote care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Systematic review on telemedicine platforms in lockdown periods

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