Medscape January 4, 2024
A virtual visit with one’s own primary care physician (PCP) is less likely to result in a subsequent emergency department (ED) visit compared with a visit with an outside physician, research suggested.
A cohort study of more than 5 million Ontario residents with a PCP found that those who had a virtual visit with a physician other than their own were 66% more likely to visit the ED within 7 days.
“Because our study relied on health administrative data only, we cannot know for sure how necessary each ED visit was,” lead author Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, told Medscape Medical News. “We did note, however, that the association between the type...
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