In addition, the NHSO in Thailand erated the use of telemedicine instead of onsite hospital reported that the average number of outpatient visits in visits, as did the National Health Security Office the capital area was lower than that in other parts of the (NHSO) policy, which encouraged hospitals and health country.26 Given that telemedicine is still a novel alterna- care professionals to provi. [...] Specifically, the T1 hospital provided the duration of the post-telemedicine period, the shorter telemedicine services from April 2020 until July 2023; of these two periods was defined as the “timeframe.” the T2 hospital, from January 2021 to August 2023; the This timeframe was then utilized to divide the pre- SP hospital, from November 2020 to April 2023; and the telemedicine and post-telemedicin. [...] by the 25–59 age-group, except at the T1 hospital, The comparison of the mean values of the OPD onsite where the 60 and older age-group mostly used telemedi- visits between pre-telemedicine and post-telemedicine cine. [...] In the T1 Results hospital, essential (primary) hypertension (I10) was The duration of available data from the four different the most common diagnosis, accounting for 6.2% of hospitals differed: the T1 hospital had 39 months, the the patients (26,479 patients). [...] The strength of this study was the reporting of the This study showed the characteristics and primary diag- general characteristics of telemedicine users, including noses of telemedicine users to support the monitoring demographic characteristics and primary diagnoses.
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Table of Contents
- Piyada Gaewkhiew Nitichen Kittiratchakool Chotika Suwanpanich Thanayut Saeraneesopon 1
- Thanakit Athibodee Suthasinee Kumluang Tanainan Chuanchaiyakul Sichen Liu Saranya Chanpanitkitchot 1
- Arthit Laosuangkul and Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai 1
- Abstract 1
- Keywords 2
- Introduction 2
- Materials and Methods 3
- Study overview and data sources 3
- Variables 3
- Health care service utilization 3
- FIG. 1. 3
- Statistical analysis plan 4
- Results 4
- FIG. 2. 4
- Trend of telemedicine utilization over time 5
- FIG. 3. 6
- Discussion 7
- FIG. 4. 7
- Limitations 8
- Recommendation 8
- Conclusion 8
- Acknowledgments 9
- Authors Contributions 9
- Disclaimer 9
- Author Disclosure Statement 9
- Funding Information 9
- References 9
