Prenatal Telehealth During the Pandemic: Sociodemographic and Clinical Associations

Telehealth and Medicine Today November 24, 2021
Cheng Gao, Sarah Osmundson, Bradley Malin, You Chen

ABSTRACT

Objectives: Like other areas of care affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth (both audio and video) was rapidly adopted in the obstetric setting. We performed a retrospective analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with telehealth utilization among patients who received prenatal care.

Materials and Methods: The study period covered March 23^rd, 2020 to July 2^nd, 2020, during which time 2,521 patients received prenatal care at a large academic medical center. We applied a generalized logistic regression to measure the relationship between the patients’ sociodemographic factors (in terms of age, race, ethnicity, urbanization level, and insurance type), pregnancy complications (namely, type 2 diabetes, chronic hypertension, and fetal growth restriction), and telehealth...

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