Do Patients Continue to Use Video Visits? Factors Related to Continued Video Visit Use
- 1 August 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in Population Health Management
- Vol. 25 (4), 462-471
- https://doi.org/10.1089/pop.2021.0353
Abstract
Many studies have assessed the factors associated with overall video visit use during the COVID-19 pandemic, but little is known about who is most likely to continue to use video visits and why. The authors combined a survey with electronic health record data to identify factors affecting the continued use of video visit. In August 2020, a stratified random sample of 20,000 active patients from a large health care system were invited to complete an email survey on health care seeking preferences during the COVID. Weighted logistic regression models were applied, adjusting for sampling frame and response bias, to identify factors associated with video visit experience, and separately for preference of continued use of video visits. Actual video visit utilization was also estimated within 12 months after the survey. Three thousand three hundred fifty-one (17.2%) patients completed the survey. Of these, 1208 (36%) reported having at least 1 video visit in the past, lowest for African American (33%) and highest for Hispanic (41%). Of these, 38% would prefer a video visit in the future. The strongest predictors of future video visit use were comfort using video interactions (odds ratio [OR] = 5.30, 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 3.57–7.85) and satisfaction with the overall quality (OR = 3.94, 95% CI: 2.66–5.86). Interestingly, despite a significantly higher satisfaction for Hispanic (40%–55%) and African American (40%–50%) compared with Asian (29%–39%), Hispanic (OR = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.12–0.88) and African American (OR = 0.54, 95% CI: 0.16–0.90) were less likely to prefer a future video visit. Disparity exists in the use of video visit. The association between patient satisfaction and continued video visit varies by race/ethnicity, which may change the future long-term video visit use among race/ethnicity groups.Keywords
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