Demographic Disparity in Use of Telemedicine for Ambulatory General Surgical Consultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of the Initial Public Health Emergency and Second Phase Periods

Demographic Disparity in Use of Telemedicine for Ambulatory General Surgical Consultation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of the Initial Public Health Emergency and Second Phase Periods

BACKGROUND: Surgical patients with limited digital literacy may experience reduced telemedicine access. We investigated racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in telemedicine compared with in-person surgical consultation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. STUDY DESIGN: Ret...

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Main Authors: Bates, D.W (Author), Bergmark, R.W (Author), Cooper, Z. (Author), Eruchalu, C.N (Author), Nguyen, L.L (Author), Ortega, G. (Author), Smink, D.S (Author), Tavakkoli, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NLM (Medline) 2022
Subjects:
adult
Adult
aged
Aged
ambulatory care
ambulatory surgery
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
ancestry group
comparative study
Computer Literacy
COVID-19
epidemiology
ethnicity
Ethnicity
female
Female
general surgery
General Surgery
health care delivery
Health Services Accessibility
human
human computer interaction
Humans
insurance
Insurance Coverage
Logistic Models
male
Male
Massachusetts
middle aged
Middle Aged
Office Visits
pandemic
Pandemics
public health
Public Health
Racial Groups
Retrospective Studies
retrospective study
Socioeconomic Factors
socioeconomics
statistical model
telemedicine
Telemedicine
telephone
Telephone
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