Telehealth Usage in Otolaryngology: A Comparative Study Pre- and Post-COVID-19.

IF 1.8 Q2 OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY OTO Open Pub Date : 2024-01-27 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1002/oto2.109
Max L Lee, Eric X Wei, Cherian Kandathil, Sam P Most
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to increased telehealth utilization in outpatient otolaryngology settings. While other studies on telehealth usage in otolaryngology settings have focused on demographic disparities during the pandemic, none have yet assessed how these demographic disparities have evolved from before versus after the pandemic. This study examines 4 recent consecutive years of demographic and clinical data from a large hospital system to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed demographic patterns in telehealth utilization. We demonstrate substantial increases in the number of otolaryngology patients participating in telehealth since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic but with no differences in patient distributions by race or ethnicity over time. We also found that telehealth patients, on average, were younger, more likely to be English-speaking, and more likely to be female. While these disparities widened slightly after the start of the pandemic, they were also present prior to the pandemic.

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耳鼻喉科远程医疗使用情况:COVID-19 前后的对比研究。
COVID-19 大流行导致耳鼻喉科门诊远程医疗使用率上升。虽然其他有关耳鼻喉科远程医疗使用情况的研究主要关注大流行期间的人口统计学差异,但还没有研究评估这些人口统计学差异在大流行之前和之后是如何演变的。本研究审查了一家大型医院系统最近连续 4 年的人口统计学和临床数据,以调查 COVID-19 大流行如何改变了远程医疗使用的人口统计学模式。我们发现,自 COVID-19 大流行开始以来,参与远程保健的耳鼻喉科患者人数大幅增加,但随着时间的推移,患者的种族或民族分布并无差异。我们还发现,远程医疗患者的平均年龄更小、更有可能讲英语、更有可能是女性。虽然这些差异在大流行开始后略有扩大,但在大流行之前也存在。
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OTO Open Medicine-Surgery
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