Accessibility of Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries ORIGINAL RESEARCH Volume 18 July 1, 2021
Suggested citation for this article: Ng BP, Park C. Accessibility of Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Medicare Beneficiaries. Prev Chronic Dis 2021;18:210056. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.210056external icon.
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What is already known on this topic?
Factors associated with accessibility and use of telehealth have been reported for the adult population; however, little is known about factors associated with accessibility of telehealth among older adults.
What is added by this report?
Over 80% of Medicare beneficiaries in our study reported that their usual providers offered telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disparities in accessibility of telehealth services by sex, residing area, income, and census region were observed.
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PASADENA (CNS) - The vast majority of patients make their end-of-life care wishes known to loved ones, and nearly 90% of the time those wishes were carried out, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
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By City News Service
Apr 6, 2021
PASADENA (CNS) - The vast majority of patients make their end-of-life care wishes known to loved ones, and nearly 90% of the time those wishes were carried out, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
“There is a common perception that people don t often document or tell others about their end-of-life wishes, said the study s lead author, David Glass, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation and lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Science at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.