作者
Grace F Chao, Kathleen Y Li, Ziwei Zhu, Jeff McCullough, Mike Thompson, Jake Claflin, Maximilian Fliegner, Emma Steppe, Andrew Ryan, Chad Ellimoottil
发表日期
2021/7/1
期刊
JAMA surgery
卷号
156
期号
7
页码范围
620-626
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Importance
While telehealth use in surgery has shown to be feasible, telehealth became a major modality of health care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Objective
To assess patterns of telehealth use across surgical specialties before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Insurance claims from a Michigan statewide commercial payer for new patient visits with a surgeon from 1 of 9 surgical specialties during one of the following periods: prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (period 1: January 5 to March 7, 2020), early pandemic (period 2: March 8 to June 6, 2020), and late pandemic (period 3: June 7 to September 5, 2020).
Exposures
Telehealth implementation owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
Main Outcomes and Measures
(1) Conversion rate defined as the rate of weekly new patient telehealth visits divided by mean weekly number of total new patient visits in 2019 …
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