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.