Virtual Care and Urinary Tract Infection Management
Comparing Ancillary Service Orders and Patient Order Fulfillments Between Virtual and In-person Encounters During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
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BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, more health care issues were being managed remotely. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are being managed more often using telehealth although few reports compare the rate of UTI ancillary service orders placed and fulfilled during these visits. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to evaluate and compare the rate of ancillary service orders and order fulfillments in incident UTI diagnoses between virtual and in-person encounters. RESEARCH DESIGN: The retrospective cohort study involved 3 integrated health care systems: Kaiser Permanente (KP) Colorado, KP Georgia, and KP Mid-Atlantic States. SUBJECTS: We included incident UTI encounters from adult primary care data from January 2019 to June 2021. MEASURES: Data were categorized as: prepandemic (January 2019-March 2020), COVID-19 Era 1 (April 2020-June 2020), and COVID-19 Era 2 (July 2020-June 2021). UTI-specific ancillary services included medication, laboratory, and imaging. Orders and order fulfillments were dichotomized for analyses. Weighted percentages for orders and fulfillments were calculated using inverse probability treatment weighting from logistic regression and compared between virtual and in-person encounters using χ2 tests. RESULTS: We identified 123,907 incident encounters. Virtual encounters increased from 13.4% prepandemic to 39.1% in COVID-19 Era 2. Ancillary service orders from virtual encounters were not placed as often as in-person encounters. However, the weighted percentage for ancillary service order fulfillment across all services remained above 65.3% across sites and eras, with many fulfillment percentages above 90%. CONCLUSIONS: Our study reported a high rate of order fulfillment for both virtual and in-person encounters. Health care systems should encourage providers to place ancillary service orders for uncomplicated diagnoses, such as UTI, to provide enhanced access to patient-centered care
Cohort · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Family medicine · Health care · Logistic regression · Medical emergency · Pandemic · Retrospective cohort study · Emergency Medicine · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Reproductive tract infections research · Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation · Urinary Tract Infections Management
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