The impact of expanded telehealth availability on primary care utilization
Abstract 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 primary care encounters (939,134 unique patients) from three healthcare systems between 2019 and 2021 and found...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-09-01
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| Series: | npj Digital Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00685-8 |