Trends in non-COVID-19 hospitalizations prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic period, United States, 2017–2021

K Cassell, CM Zipfel, S Bansal… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
COVID-19 pandemic-related shifts in healthcare utilization, in combination with trends in non-
COVID-19 disease transmission and non-pharmaceutical intervention use, had clear …

Telehealth expansion, internet speed, and primary care access before and during COVID-19

AS Tilhou, A Jain, T DeLeire - JAMA Network Open, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Primary care (PC) receipt is associated with better health outcomes. How
telehealth expansion and internet speed are associated with PC use is unclear. Objective To …

Effectiveness of telehealth versus in-person care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review

E Hatef, RF Wilson, A Zhang, SM Hannum… - npj Digital …, 2024 - nature.com
In this systematic review, we compared the effectiveness of telehealth with in-person care
during the pandemic using PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Central …

Association between in-person vs telehealth follow-up and rates of repeated hospital visits among patients seen in the emergency department

VV Shah, CW Villaflores, LH Chuong… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance For patients discharged from the emergency department (ED), timely outpatient
in-person follow-up is associated with improved mortality, but the effectiveness of telehealth …

Use telehealth as needed: telehealth substitutes in-person primary care and associates with the changes in unplanned events and follow-up visits

Y Cao, D Chen, M Smith - BMC Health Services Research, 2023 - Springer
Background Telehealth rapidly expanded since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study aims to understand how telehealth can substitute in-person services by 1) …

The impact of increased access to telemedicine

D Zeltzer, L Einav, J Rashba… - Journal of the European …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We estimate the impact of increased access to telemedicine following widespread adoption
during the March–April 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period. We focus on the post-lockdown …

Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person visits

A Zhong, MJ Amat, TS Anderson, U Shafiq… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Use of telehealth has increased substantially in recent years. However, little is
known about whether the likelihood of completing recommended tests and specialty …

Use of telemedicine and quality of care among Medicare enrollees with serious mental illness

AD Wilcock, HA Huskamp, AB Busch… - JAMA Health …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance During the COVID-19 pandemic, a large fraction of mental health care was
provided via telemedicine. The implications of this shift in care for use of mental health …

The impact of expanded telehealth availability on primary care utilization

RA Dixit, RM Ratwani, JA Bishop, K Schulman… - NPJ Digital …, 2022 - nature.com
The expanded availability of telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic presents a concern
that telehealth may result in an unnecessary increase in utilization. We analyzed 4,114,651 …

Differences in telemedicine, emergency department, and hospital utilization among nonelderly adults with limited English proficiency post-COVID-19 pandemic: a …

E Chang, TL Davis, ND Berkman - Journal of general internal medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background The unprecedented use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic
provided an opportunity to examine its uptake among individuals with limited English …