The effectiveness of teleconsultations in primary care: systematic review

S Carrillo de Albornoz, KL Sia, A Harris - Family Practice, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has focussed attention on models of healthcare that
avoid face-to-face contacts between clinicians and patients, and teleconsultations have …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of remote consultations on antibiotic prescribing in primary health care: systematic review

SM Han, G Greenfield, A Majeed, B Hayhoe - Journal of medical Internet …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background There has been growing international interest in performing remote
consultations in primary care, particularly amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic. Despite …

Antibiotic prescribing during pediatric direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits

KN Ray, Z Shi, CA Gidengil, SJ Poon… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: In a retrospective cohort study using 2015–2016 claims data from a large
national commercial health plan, we identified ARI visits by children (0–17 years old) …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment and follow-up care associated with patient-scheduled primary care telemedicine and in-person visits in a large integrated health system

M Reed, J Huang, I Graetz, E Muelly… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Telemedicine visits can offer patients convenient access to a clinician, but it is
unclear whether treatment differs from that with in-person visits or how often patients require …

Factors associated with the duration of hospitalisation among COVID-19 patients in Vietnam: A survival analysis

PQ Thai, DT Son, HTH Van, LN Minh… - Epidemiology & …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe median duration of hospital stays due to COVID-19 has been reported in
several studies on China as 10− 13 days. Global studies have indicated that the length of …

Providing outpatient telehealth services in the United States: before and during coronavirus disease 2019

JJ Brotman, RM Kotloff - Chest, 2021 - Elsevier
Before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), telehealth evaluation and management (E/M)
services were not widely used in the United States and often were restricted to rural areas or …

Uptake and patient and provider communication modality preferences of virtual visits in primary care: a retrospective cohort study in Canada

V Stamenova, P Agarwal, L Kelley, J Fujioka… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the uptake of a platform for virtual visits in primary care, examine
patient and physician preferences for virtual communication methods and report on …

Direct-to-consumer telemedicine

T Elliott, MC Yopes - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In …, 2019 - Elsevier
The telemedicine industry and adoption of services have grown exponentially in the last 5
years, and the market is expected to reach more than $130 billion by 2025. Most US health …

Declining use of primary care among commercially insured adults in the United States, 2008–2016

I Ganguli, Z Shi, EJ Orav, A Rao, KN Ray… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Background: Primary care is known to improve outcomes and lower health care costs,
prompting recent US policy efforts to expand its role. Nonetheless, there is early evidence of …

Telemedicine versus in-person primary care: treatment and follow-up visits

M Reed, J Huang, M Somers, L Hsueh… - Annals of Internal …, 2023 - acpjournals.org
Background: Beyond initial COVID-19 pandemic emergency expansions of telemedicine
use, it is unclear how well primary care telemedicine addresses patients' needs. Objective …