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The Transition to Telehealth during the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a National Sample of Patients

Authors: Shira H. Fischer, MD, PhD, Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD, Elizabeth Roth, MA, Joshua Breslau, PhD, ScD, MS

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 3/2021

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As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person medical care, emergency regulatory changes were implemented to promote use of telehealth, ¹ moving this previously peripheral practice to the center of health care delivery in the USA. One study of private health care claims found that telemedicine claims were 4000% higher in March 2020 than in March 2019.² Information on use of telehealth by patients can inform post-pandemic policy. …

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Title: The Transition to Telehealth during the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a National Sample of Patients
Authors: Shira H. Fischer, MD, PhD
Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD
Elizabeth Roth, MA
Joshua Breslau, PhD, ScD, MS
Publication date: 01-03-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: COVID-19
Telemedicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06358-0

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