Chief Healthcare Executive October 19, 2021
Patients receiving care at Memorial Sloan Kettering preferred telemedicine visits over in-office visits with similar satisfaction scores.
Although a slightly higher percentage of patients with cancer prefer telemedicine to in-person visits, satisfaction scores were equally high for both, according to a study from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center researchers. The findings were published in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
The researchers assessed satisfaction and preference from 1,077 survey responses from radiation oncology patients. The patients received care at MSK’s main campus and six regional locations in New York and New Jersey. They were evaluating office and telemedicine visits that took place between December 2019 and June 2020.
A total of 726 of the patients were seen in...
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