Trends in Outpatient Care Delivery and Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

Sadiq Y Patel; Ateev Mehrotra; Haiden A Huskamp; Lori Uscher-Pines; Ishani Ganguli; Michael L Barnett

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5928

Trends in Outpatient Care Delivery and Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Mar 1;181(3):388-391. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5928.

Authors

Sadiq Y Patel¹, Ateev Mehrotra^{1

2

3}, Haiden A Huskamp¹, Lori Uscher-Pines⁴, Ishani Ganguli⁵, Michael L Barnett^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ OptumLabs Visiting Fellow, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
⁴ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cohort study examines trends in the use of telemedicine and in-person outpatient visits in 2020 among a national sample of 16.7 million individuals with commercial or Medicare Advantage insurance.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Care / trends*
COVID-19*
Delivery of Health Care / trends*
Humans
Pandemics
Telemedicine / trends*
United States

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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