ArticleACR open rheumatology2022
Telemedicine Visits During COVID-19 Improved Clinic Show Rates.
Article in ACR open rheumatology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of no show or non-attendance rates among telehealth and in-person models of care.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
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- Clinical Usefulness of a Smartphone-Based 6-Minute Walk Test in a Hospital Outpatient Clinic Within the Constraints of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- The Growing Role of Digital Health Tools in the Care of Patients with Cancer: Current Use, Future Opportunities, and Barriers to Effective Implementation.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- Examining differences in time to appointment and no-show rates between rural telehealth users and non-users.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- A comparative analysis of outpatient nutrition clinic scheduling outcomes based on in-person and telehealth patient care delivery modalities.Healthcare analytics (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Telemedicine in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Usefulness of Digital Health Technology in the Assistance of Critical Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Telemedicine and the environment: life cycle environmental emissions from in-person and virtual clinic visits.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
- Health information use by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Lupus science & medicine · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveWe aimed to explore the impact of telehealth in the setting of COVID-19 on patient access to ambulatory rheumatologic care at our academic public health system and to determine whether telemedicine visits had a beneficial impact on access to our rheumatology ambulatory clinics.
methodsWe compared completed, no-show, and cancellation rates between in-person clinic visits and telemedicine appointments over a 10-week time period before Ohio's initial executive order responding to COVID-19 (premandate period) and a 10-week time period afterward (postmandate period). Scheduling and appointment data were retrospectively extracted from the medical center's electronic health record.
resultsDuring the premandate period, when all visits were in-person, the total number of completed visits was 930. The percentages of cancellations, no-shows, and completed appointments of all appointment activities were 31.43%, 13.12%, and 55.46%, respectively. During the postmandate period, when telemedicine visits were added, the overall total number of completed visits was 1038. The percentages of cancellations, no-shows, and completed appointments of all appointment activities were 53.45%, 13.91%, and 32.64%, respectively, for in-person appointments and 0.12%, 8.48%, and 91.39%, respectively, for telemedicine appointments.
conclusionTelemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in higher rates of completed appointments and lower rates of missed appointments in the rheumatology outpatient clinic compared with in-person visits during and prior to the pandemic.
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