Variation in Quality of Urgent Health Care Provided During Commercial Virtual Visits.
Variation in Quality of Urgent Health Care Provided During Commercial Virtual Visits.
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DOI:
10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.8248
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发表时间:
2016-05-01
影响因子:
39
通讯作者:
Dudley RA
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作者:
Schoenfeld AJ;Davies JM;Marafino BJ;Dean M;DeJong C;Bardach NS;Kazi DS;Boscardin WJ;Lin GA;Duseja R;Mei YJ;Mehrotra A;Dudley RA
Commercial virtual visits are an increasingly popular model of care for the management of common, acute illnesses. In commercial virtual visits, patients access a website to be connected synchronously—via videoconference, telephone, or webchat—to a physician with whom they have no prior relationship. There has been no assessment of whether the care delivered through those websites is similar, or whether quality varies among the sites. To assess the variation in quality of care among virtual visit companies. We performed an audit study using trained standardized patients. The standardized patients presented to commercial virtual visit companies with six common, acute illnesses (ankle pain, streptococcal pharyngitis, viral pharyngitis, acute rhinosinusitis, low back pain, and recurrent urinary tract infection). The eight commercial virtual visit websites with the highest web traffic. The primary outcomes were completeness of histories and physical examinations, naming the correct diagnosis (versus an incorrect diagnosis or not naming any diagnosis), and adherence to guidelines of key management decisions. Standardized patients completed 599 commercial virtual visits from May 2013 to July 2014. Histories and physical examinations were complete in 69.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 67.7%-71.6%) of virtual visits, diagnoses were correctly named in 76.5% (CI, 72.9%-79.9%), and key management decisions were adherent to guidelines in 54.3% (CI, 50.2%-58.3%). Rates of guideline-adherent care ranged from 34.4% to 66.1% across the eight websites. Variation across websites was significantly greater for viral pharyngitis and acute rhinosinusitis (12.8-82.1%) than for streptococcal pharyngitis and low back pain (74.6-96.5%) or ankle pain and recurrent urinary tract infection (3.4-40.4%). There was no statistically significant variation in guideline adherence by mode of communication (video vs. telephone vs. webchat). We found significant variation in quality among companies providing virtual visits for management of common acute illnesses. There was more variation in performance for some conditions than for others, but there was no variation by mode of communication.
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