Urology Times October 4, 2024
“I would say the take-home message is that we found that from a patient-centered orientation, telehealth for new and established patients have comparably high satisfaction scores but provide substantially lower costs compared with in-person visits for patients with urologic cancer,” says Daniel Carson, MD, MS.
In this video, Daniel Carson, MD, MS, discusses 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.
Your study found high satisfaction rates for both in-person and telehealth visits. Were there any specific aspects of the telehealth experience that patients particularly appreciated or found less satisfactory compared with in-person visits?
The satisfaction rates were high across the board...