远程医疗服务范围扩大对初级医疗保健利用的影响。
The impact of expanded telehealth availability on primary care utilization.
作者信息
Dixit Ram A, Ratwani Raj M, Bishop Jasmine A, Schulman Kevin, Sharp Christopher, Palakanis Kerry, Booker Ethan
机构信息
MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Washington, DC, USA.
MedStar Health Telehealth Innovation Center, Washington, DC, USA.
出版信息
NPJ Digit Med. 2022 Sep 9;5(1):141. doi: 10.1038/s41746-022-00685-8.
The expanded availability of telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic presents a concern that telehealth may result in an unnecessary increase in utilization. We analyzed 4,114,651 primary care encounters (939,134 unique patients) from three healthcare systems between 2019 and 2021 and found little change in utilization as telehealth became widely available. Results suggest telehealth availability is not resulting in additional primary care visits and federal policies should support telehealth use.
由于新冠疫情，远程医疗的可及性得到了扩展，这引发了人们对远程医疗可能导致不必要的使用量增加的担忧。我们分析了2019年至2021年间来自三个医疗系统的4,114,651次初级保健诊疗（939,134名不同患者），发现随着远程医疗的广泛普及，使用量几乎没有变化。结果表明，远程医疗的可及性并未导致额外的初级保健就诊，联邦政策应支持远程医疗的使用。
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