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ReviewJournal of immigrant and minority health2022

Disparities in Telehealth use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

K H Vincent Lau, Pria Anand, Alex Ramirez, Sheila Phicil

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Review in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Telemedicine Implementation for Safety Net Populations: A Systematic Review.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2024
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  12. Digital health equity frameworks and key concepts: a scoping review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

K H Vincent Lau *Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. vilau@bu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-5589
Pria Anand *Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Alex RamirezDepartment of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Sheila PhicilDepartment of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus 2019 pandemic led to rapid expansion of outpatient telemedicine. We sought to characterize patient factors influencing outpatient teleneurology utilization at an urban safety-net hospital. We reviewed all neurology televisits scheduled between June 15, 2020 to April 15, 2021. We used the chi-squared test and multivariate logistic regression to characterize patient demographic factors associated with televisit completion and video use. Of 8875 scheduled televisit encounters, 7530 were completed successfully, 44% via video. Non-English speaking patients, Black patients, Latinx patients, and those with a zip code-linked annual income less than $50,000 were less likely to successfully complete a scheduled televisit. The same demographic groups other than Latinx ethnicity were also less likely to use the video option. Our study found unequal telehealth utilization based on patients' demographic factors. Currently declining telemedicine reimbursement rates asymmetrically affect audio-only visits, which may limit telehealth access for vulnerable patient populations.

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COVID-19TelemedicineHumansLogistic ModelsPandemicsSafety-net ProvidersCOVID-19DisparitiesHealthcare accessTelehealth

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PMID35976473
PMCPMC9382002

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