Dr. Daniel Carson on telehealth vs in-person urology visits

Urology Times September 30, 2024
Urology Times staff

“Patient-reported satisfaction scores were high for both telehealth and inpatient visits for both new and established encounters,” says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.

In this video, Daniel Carson, MD, MS, discusses the background and notable findings from the Urologic Oncology paper, “Telehealth visit type and patient-reported outcomes among patients with cancer.” Carson is a urology resident at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Please describe the background for this study.

The title of our study is “Telehealth visit type and patient-reported outcomes among patients with cancer,” and the focus was really to evaluate patient satisfaction and appointment-related costs with telehealth or in-person visit stratified by new or established encounters. We know that telehealth as a health care delivery modality has...

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