Factors Affecting Use of Telemedicine
All Ages | Aged 18 Years and Older Only | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
New patient | −0.041*** | −0.047*** | −0.046*** | −0.046*** | −0.047*** |
(0.003) | (0.003) | (0.003) | (0.003) | (0.003) | |
Primary care visit | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.002 | 0.002 | −0.000 |
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
LACE/Risk score | −0.000*** | −0.000 | −0.000* | −0.000*** | −0.000** |
(0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |
Hospital admission risk | 0.000*** | ||||
(0.000) | |||||
Sex = Male | 0.020*** | 0.019*** | 0.019*** | 0.019*** | 0.016*** |
(0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
Race = White | 0.012*** | 0.011*** | 0.011*** | 0.011*** | 0.009** |
(0.003) | (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | |
Age, years | 0.002*** | −0.002*** | |||
(0.000) | (0.000) | ||||
Married | 0.003 | −0.005*** | −0.007*** | −0.007*** | −0.004** |
(0.003) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | (0.002) | |
Persons aged 35 years and older but younger than 65 years = 1 | −0.024*** | −0.029*** | −0.021*** | ||
(0.003) | (0.004) | (0.004) | |||
Persons aged 65 years or older = 1 | −0.024*** | −0.040*** | −0.029*** | ||
(0.003) | (0.007) | (0.007) | |||
Persons aged older than 35 years but younger than 65 years interacted with LACE score | 0.000** | 0.000 | |||
(0.000) | (0.000) | ||||
Persons aged 65 years or older interacted with LACE score | 0.001*** | 0.001** | |||
(0.000) | (0.000) | ||||
Constant | −0.118*** | −0.029 | −0.067** | −0.065** | −0.067** |
(0.029) | (0.030) | (0.028) | (0.029) | (0.028) | |
Observations | 110,991 | 105,988 | 106,025 | 106,025 | 106,025 |
R-squared | 0.067 | 0.068 | 0.068 | 0.068 | 0.083 |
Adjusted R-squared | 0.0666 | 0.0680 | 0.0678 | 0.0679 | 0.0822 |
↵*** P < .01,
↵** P < .05,
↵* P < .1.
Models also control for whether the visit was on a weekday, the month of the visit, distance of the patient from the clinics in Morgantown, 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.