McKnight's August 31, 2022
Alicia Lasek

Home hospital care recipients who receive remote physician visits have similar safety risks and self-reported patient experiences as their peers who receive in-person physician visits, according to a new study.

The findings were nuanced, however, Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School, reported. There were a few more adverse events in the remote-care patient group, for example. And in a subset of remote-care patients, physicians opted to make at least one additional in-person visit to ensure proper care.

Schnipper and colleagues assessed 172 adult patients who had received acute-level care at home between August 2019 and March 2020. The range of acute conditions included infection, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.

Home hospital care included...

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