Patient and Family Factors Associated with Use of Telemedicine Visits for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Tract Infections, 2018-2019.
Telemed J E Health
; 29(1): 127-136, 2023 01.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35639360
ABSTRACT
Background:
Pediatric acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) were a common reason for commercial direct-to-consumer (DTC) telemedicine use before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the factors associated with this use are unknown.Objective:
To identify child and family factors associated with use of commercial DTC telemedicine for ARTIs in 2018-2019.Methods:
We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of claims data from the Optum Clinformatics® Data Mart Database. Among children with ARTI visits, we fitted logit models to examine child and family characteristics associated with DTC telemedicine use.Results:
Of 660,725 children with ARTI visits, 12,944 (2.0%) had ≥1 commercial DTC telemedicine encounter. The odds of DTC telemedicine use were higher for children with age ≥12 years, lower parent educational attainment, higher household income, white non-Hispanic race/ethnicity, and residency in the West South Central census division.Conclusion:
In 2018-2019, commercial DTC telemedicine use varied with child age, child race/ethnicity parent educational attainment, household income, and geography.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Respiratory Tract Infections
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Telemedicine
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Telemed J E Health
Journal subject:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos