Comparative Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Primary Care
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Asthma
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - COPD
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Type
- Observational
- Design
- Observational Model: CohortTime Perspective: Retrospective
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 19 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has quickly emerged as the primary method of providing outpatient care in many regions with shelter-in-place and social distancing policies. It is critical to understand the impact of this rapid and widespread transition from in-person to remote visits on d...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has quickly emerged as the primary method of providing outpatient care in many regions with shelter-in-place and social distancing policies. It is critical to understand the impact of this rapid and widespread transition from in-person to remote visits on disparities in access to primary care, especially in chronic disease where ongoing communication between providers and patients is essential. Also, these newly developed or expanded telemedicine programs vary widely, raising important questions about the effect of these differences on uptake of telemedicine among different patient populations and on patient-centered outcomes. Leveraging a natural experiment approach, the investigators will examine rapidly changing telemedicine and in-person models of care during and after the COVID-19 crisis to determine whether certain patients could safely choose to continue telemedicine or telemedicine-supplemented care, rather than return to in-person care. The overarching goals of this study are to describe the features of telemedicine programs in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic and to use natural experiment methods to provide rigorous evidence on the effects of these programs.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04684836
- Collaborators
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jessica Ancker, MPH, PhD Weill Medical College of Cornell University Principal Investigator: Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH Weill Medical College of Cornell University