Identifying Inequities in Video and Audio Telehealth Services for Primary Care Encounters During COVID-19: Repeated Cross-Sectional, Observational Study.
Lorraine R BuisLindsay K BrownMelissa A PlegueReema KadriAnna R LaurieTimothy C GuettermanV G Vinod VydiswaranJiazhao LiTiffany Christine VeinotPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2023)
Findings from this study demonstrate that primary care utilization across delivery modalities (in person, video, and phone) was not equivalent across all groups before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and different groups were differentially impacted at different points. Understanding how different groups of patients responded to these rapid changes and how health care inequities may have been affected is an important step in better understanding implementation strategies for digital solutions in the future.