ArticleHealth economics2022
On the demand for telemedicine: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Health economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Analysis of the costs of teleconsultation for the treatment of diabetes mellitus in the SUS.Revista de saude publica · 2024Trial
- Occupational Licensing and Psychologist Supply.Health economics · 2026Article
- Medical artificial intelligence and the right to health.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Remote assessment of physical function in older people: feasibility, safety and agreement with in-person administration.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Telehealth payment parity and outpatient service utilization: evidence from privately insured workers.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Telemedicine for COVID-19 management in Brazil: outcomes and health system implications from a prospective cohort study.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2025Article
- The Impact of Virtual Clinic Services on Healthcare Practitioners' Attitudes: A Case Study at Maternity and Children Hospital Makkah al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2024Article
- Comparing the trends of MBS telepsychiatry and consultant physician telehealth services from 2017 to 2022: A retrospective study.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Increasing the use of telemedicine: A field experiment.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Digital Health Reimbursement Strategies of 8 European Countries and Israel: Scoping Review and Policy Mapping.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Article
- Factors influencing engagement in online dual practice by public hospital doctors in three large cities: A mixed-methods study in China.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- Thermal Image Processing for Respiratory Estimation from Cubical Data with Expandable Depth.Journal of imaging · 2023Article
- Review
- Telemedicine Use and the Perceived Risk of COVID-19: Patient Experience.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Digital Health-Seeking Behavior: Big Data Interrupted Time-Series Analysis of Google Trends.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- On the demand for telemedicine: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.Health economics · 2022Article
- Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era: A Narrative Review Based on Current Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future.Connected health · 2022Article
- Technology's Impact on Nurse Manager Practices.Nursing administration quarterlyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine has remained low. Using administrative records and a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the change in demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We find that the number of telemedicine calls made during the pandemic increased by 230 percent compared to the pre-pandemic period. The effects were mostly driven by older individuals with preexisting conditions who used the service for internal medicine consultations. The demand for telemedicine remained relatively high even after mobility restrictions were relaxed, which is consistent with telemedicine being an "experience good." These results are a proof of concept for policy makers to use such relatively low-cost medical consultations, made possible by new technologies, to provide needed expansion of access to health care.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.