McKnight’s Senior Living October 17, 2023
(HealthDay News) — In-person return visits are slightly higher after primary care telemedicine versus in-person visits, according to a study published online Oct. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Mary Reed, DrPH, from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, CA, and colleagues compared treatment and follow-up visits between primary care video or telephone telemedicine and in-person office visits in a retrospective study based on administrative and electronic health record data between April and December 2021.
A total of 1,589,014 adult patients, with 2,357,598 primary care visits were included in the analyses. The researchers found that 50.8% of the primary care visits used telemedicine (19.5 and 31.3% video and telephone, respectively)....
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