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Home Research Research Library The Disproportionate Impact of Primary Care Disruption and Telehealth Utilization During COVID-19 The Disproportionate Impact of Primary Care Disruption and Telehealth Utilization During COVID-19 2024 Author(s) Morgan, Zachary J, Bazemore, Andrew W, Peterson, Lars E, Phillips, Robert L, and Dai, Mingliang Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership, and Prime Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine PURPOSE The COVID-19 pandemic not only exacerbated existing disparities in health care in general but likely worsened disparities in access to primary care. Our objective was to quantify the nationwide decrease in primary care visits and increase in telehealth utilization during the pandemic and explore whether certain groups of patients were disproportionately affected. METHODS We used a geographically diverse primary care electronic health record data set to examine the following 3 outcomes: (1) change in total visit volume, (2) change in in-person visit volume, and (3) the telehealth conversion ratio defined as the number of pandemic telehealth visits divided by the total number of prepandemic visits. We assessed whether these outcomes were associated with patient characteristics including age, gender, race, ethnicity, comorbidities, rurality, and area-level social deprivation. RESULTS Our primary sample included 1,652,871 patients from 408 practices. During the pandemic we observed decreases of 7% and 17% in total and in-person visit volume and a 10% telehealth conversion ratio. The greatest decreases in visit volume were observed among pediatric patients (−24%), Asian patients (−11%), and those with more comorbidities (−9%). Telehealth usage was greatest among Hispanic or Latino patients (17%) and those living in urban areas (12%). CONCLUSIONS Decreases in primary care visit volume were partially offset by increasing telehealth use for all patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the magnitude of these changes varied significantly across all patient characteristics. These variations have implications not only for the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also for planners seeking to ready the primary care delivery system for any future systematic disruptions. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2019 PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION Go to PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2020 Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children Go to Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children 2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM
Author(s) Morgan, Zachary J, Bazemore, Andrew W, Peterson, Lars E, Phillips, Robert L, and Dai, Mingliang Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership, and Prime Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2019 PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION Go to PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2020 Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children Go to Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children 2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM
2019 PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION Go to PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology
2020 Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children Go to Asthma Care Quality, Language, and Ethnicity in a Multi-State Network of Low-Income Children
2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM
