Impact of telehealth on health care resource utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Impact of telehealth on health care resource utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published:2022-04 Issue:5 Volume:11 Page:301-309
ISSN:2042-6305
Container-title:Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Comp. Eff. Res.

Author:

Arora Prachi¹^ORCID,Mehta Darshan²^ORCID,Ha Jane¹

Affiliation:

1. College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46208, USA

2. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., 84 Waterford Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752, USA

Abstract

Aim: To assess healthcare utilization (HCRU) among patients with incident telehealth visit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials & methods: Retrospective pre-post analyses was conducted using HealthJump data. Adults continuously enrolled with an incident telehealth visit between Feb and April 2020 were identified. Demographics, clinical characteristics, proportion of patients with ≥1 HCRU visits and post-index trends in HCRU were analyzed. Results: Sample constituted 2799 patients, 60.34% female and 46.23% white with mean age 59.70. Significant increase in patients with outpatient visits (5.36%, p < 0.005; only established), non-face-to-face visits (99.50%, p < 0.005) and prescription use (12.86%, p < 0.005) was reported. Conclusion: Among patients utilizing telehealth during COVID-19 pandemic, HCRU changed significantly. Better deployment policies and adoption techniques of telehealth could potentially act as a strong tool to revolutionize the healthcare delivery, with or without the pandemic.

Publisher

Becaris Publishing Limited

Subject

Health Policy

Link

https://becarispublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/cer-2021-0242

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