Sociodemographic Missed-care Predictors for Pediatric Orthopaedic Telemedicine During COVID-19
We examined differences in pediatric orthopaedic telemedicine MCOs during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with MCOs of in-person visits in a prepandemic time frame. We hypothesized that groups with known health disparities would experience higher rates of pediatric orthopedic telemedicine MCOs.
Methods:
We retrospectively analyzed pediatric orthopaedic telemedicine MCOs during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (March-May 2020) and in-person pediatric orthopaedic visit MCOs during a nonpandemic timeframe (March-May 2019). We examined predictors of MCOs including race, ethnicity, language, insurance status, and other socioeconomic determinants of health.
Results:
There were 1448 telemedicine appointments in the pandemic cohort and 8053 in-person appointments in the prepandemic cohort. Rates of telemedicine MCOs (12.5%; n=181) were significantly lower than in-person MCOs (19.5%; n=1566; P
Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Selected Topics Source Type: research
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