Factors Associated With Telehealth Use in 2014 for Family Physicians Responding to the January 2015 Robert Graham Center Survey*
Variable | Odds Ratio | Confidence Interval |
---|---|---|
Sex | ||
Female | 1.07 | 0.75–1.54 |
Male | Reference | |
Type of medical degree | ||
Allopathic | Reference | |
Osteopathic | 0.57 | 0.31–1.02 |
Location of medical school | ||
United States | Reference | |
International | 0.8 | 0.48–1.32 |
Practice location | ||
Urban | Reference | |
Rural | 3.05 | 2.19–4.25 |
Years in practice | ||
1–10 | Reference | |
11–20 | 0.66 | 0.43–1.01 |
21–30 | 0.87 | 0.55–1.37 |
>31 | 0.62 | 0.36–1.08 |
Electronic health record use | ||
Currently a user | 3.42 | 1.22–9.65 |
Not currently a user | Reference | |
Type of care provided | ||
Hospital/urgent/emergency care or other care | Reference | |
General primary care | 0.51 | 0.33–0.80 |
Family physicians at the practice site | ||
1–5 | Reference | |
≥6 | 1.32 | 0.93–1.89 |
Practice ownership | ||
Private | Reference | |
Hospital health system | 1.26 | 0.81–1.95 |
Integrated health system | 3.53 | 1.79–6.98 |
Other | 3.56 | 2.17–5.85 |
Constant | 0.047 | 0.02–0.15 |
↵* Respondents were from among a random sample of 5000 family physicians in direct patient care from the 2014 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, with oversampling of rural family physicians at a rate of 2 to 1. There are 1508 observations.