Journal article
Reduced In-Person and Increased Telehealth Outpatient Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Annals of internal medicine, Vol.174(1), pp.129-131
01/2021
DOI: 10.7326/M20-3026
PMCID: PMC7429994
PMID: 32776780
Abstract
Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many health systems are postponing outpatient visits and shifting services to telehealth. However, the extent to which in-person visits have been reduced and replaced by telehealth visits remains unclear.
Objective: To describe changes in the number of in-person, telephone, and video visits at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient facilities during the initial 10 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, both overall and stratified by VA clinic.
Methods and Findings: The VA is the largest health care provider in the United States and has implemented a robust COVID-19 plan in response to the pandemic. We analyzed data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, a national repository of electronic health records from visits to any VA facility that is updated nightly and has been previously assessed for reliability and accuracy .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reduced In-Person and Increased Telehealth Outpatient Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creators
- Aaron Baum - VA NY Harbor Healthcare SystemPeter J Kaboli - Iowa City VA Health Care SystemMark D Schwartz - VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of internal medicine, Vol.174(1), pp.129-131
- DOI
- 10.7326/M20-3026
- PMID
- 32776780
- PMCID
- PMC7429994
- NLM abbreviation
- Ann Intern Med
- ISSN
- 0003-4819
- eISSN
- 1539-3704
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359871902771
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