Association of Telemedicine with Primary Care Appointment Access After Hospital Discharge.

The columns display the monthly percent of all scheduled post-discharge primary care visits that were telemedicine. Among patients discharged after June 1, 2020, those who had telemedicine visits scheduled were more likely to be Black, female, and slightly younger compared to patients who had in-person follow-up scheduled (Table 1). The average time from discharge to first scheduled appointment was 1.4 days shorter for telemedicine than in-person visits ( I p i < 0.0001), the rate of scheduled follow-up within 7 days was 8.2% higher ( I p i < 0.001), visit completion rates were 22.5% higher ( I p i < 0.001), and the rate of seeing one's assigned PCP was 2.6% higher ( I p i = 0.04). [Extracted from the article]