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2. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic & Telehealth Implementation in a Student Run Free Clinic

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Robert P. Pierce, Zachary C. Reuter, Nicole M. Hitchcock, Madeline E. Simon, and Michela M. Fabricius

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medicine.medical_specialty, Health (social science), Free clinic, Student Run Clinic, Population, education, Ethnic group, COVID-19 pandemic, Telehealth, Health Services Accessibility, film.subject, Rurality, Pandemic, Health care, medicine, Humans, Pandemics, health care economics and organizations, education.field_of_study, Original Paper, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, Middle Aged, Health equity, Telemedicine, film, Uninsured, Family medicine, Health disparities, business, Student run free clinic
Abstract

Student run free clinics (SRFCs) fill a void in healthcare access for many communities and have been subject to unprecedented shifts in care delivery brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Our single-center institution serving uninsured patients in central Missouri switched from in-person visits to strictly telehealth visits with the onset of the pandemic. This study investigated the impact of the pandemic and the switch to telehealth on the clinic return rates by ethnicity, race, gender, rurality, and age. The pandemic led to a 47.4% reduction in the number of monthly patient encounters. Of the established SRFC population (N = 309), only 87 patients (28.2%) returned for a telehealth visit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Older patients (≥ 45 years old) were more likely to return (OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.02–2.85) for care via telehealth after the onset of the pandemic than younger patients (

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2021

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