Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic & Telehealth Implementation in a Student Run Free Clinic
| Autor: | Robert P. Pierce, Zachary C. Reuter, Nicole M. Hitchcock, Madeline E. Simon, Michela M. Fabricius |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
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 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Community Health |
| ISSN: | 1573-3610 0094-5145 |
| Popis: | 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 ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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