Table 3.

Factors Affecting Completion of Primary Care Visits

	All Ages	Aged 18 Years and Older Only
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Telemedicine = 1	0.243^***	0.245^***	0.243^***	0.231^***	0.171^***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.007)	(0.007)
New patient	−0.033^***	−0.027^***	−0.029^***	−0.030^***	−0.028^***
	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.004)
Primary care visit	0.010^***	0.011^***	0.014^***	0.014^***	−0.067^***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
LACE/Risk score	0.001^***	0.000^***	0.000	−0.000	−0.001^***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Hospital admission risk	−0.001^***	−0.001^***
	(0.000)	(0.000)
Sex = Male	−0.020^***	−0.020^***	−0.023^***	−0.023^***	−0.016^***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Race = White	0.014^**	0.012^**	0.010^*	0.010^*	0.006
	(0.005)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.005)
Age, years	−0.003^***	−0.001^***
	(0.000)	(0.000)
Married	0.004	0.005	0.035^***	0.035^***	0.037^***
	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.003)
Distance in miles to the facility	−0.001^***	−0.001^***
	(0.000)	(0.000)
Persons aged older than 35 years but younger than 65 years = 1			0.004	0.004	−0.052^***
			(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Persons aged 65 years or older = 1			0.056^***	0.056^***	−0.040^***
			(0.005)	(0.005)	(0.005)
LACE score interacted with use of telemedicine				0.001^**
				(0.000)
Persons aged older than 35 years but younger than 65 years interacted with use of telemedicine					0.052^***
					(0.009)
Persons aged 65 years or older interacted with use of telemedicine					0.013
					(0.010)
Constant	0.582^***	0.544^***	0.598^***	0.600^***	0.560^***
	(0.045)	(0.047)	(0.045)	(0.045)	(0.038)
Observations	110,991	105,988	106,025	106,025	106,025
R-squared	0.037	0.038	0.036	0.036	0.317
Adjusted R-squared	0.0369	0.0381	0.0361	0.0362	0.316

↵*** P < .01,
↵** P < .05,
↵* P < .1.
Models also control for whether the visit was on a weekday, the month of the visit, and community-level factors at the zip code level including the poverty rate, median household income, the unemployment rate, the percentage of persons with a bachelor's degree or higher and with a high school diploma. Model 5 also include diagnosis codes.
Robust standard errors in parentheses.
Abbreviations: LACE score, a readmission risk score based on hospital admission information, the Charlson Comorbidity index, and emergency department visits within the last 6 to 12 months.