Telemedicine and visit completion among people with HIV during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic compared with prepandemic.
AIDS
; 36(3): 355-362, 2022 03 01.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1494133
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Telemedicine became the primary mode of delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe the impact of telemedicine on access to care for people with HIV (PWH) by comparing the proportion of PWH engaged in care prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN ANDMETHODS:
We conducted an observational analysis of patients enrolled in the Johns Hopkins HIV Clinical Cohort, a single-center cohort of patients at an urban HIV subspecialty clinic affiliated with an academic center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the clinic transitioned from in-person to mostly telemedicine visits. We compared patients receiving care in two time periods. The prepandemic period included 2010 people with at least one visit scheduled between 1 September 2019 and 15 March 2020. The pandemic period included 1929 people with at least one visit scheduled between 16 March 2020 and 30 September 2020. We determined the proportion of patients completing at least one of their scheduled visits during each period.RESULTS:
Visit completion increased significantly from 88% prepandemic to 91% during the pandemic (Pâ=â0.008). Visit completion improved significantly for patients age 20-39 (82 to 92%, Pâ<â0.001), women (86 to 93%, Pâ<â0.001), Black patients (88 to 91%, Pâ=â0.002) and patients with detectable viremia (77 to 85%, Pâ=â0.06) during the pandemic. Only 29% of people who completed at least one telemedicine visit during the pandemic did so as a video (versus telephone) visit.CONCLUSION:
During the pandemic when care was widely delivered via telemedicine, visit completion improved among groups with lower prepandemic engagement but most were limited to telephone visits.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
HIV Infections
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Telemedicine
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Young adult
Language:
English
Journal:
AIDS
Journal subject:
SINDROME DA IMUNODEFICIENCIA ADQUIRIDA (AIDS)
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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