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. 2023 Jul 3;6(7):e2321955.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.21955.

Variations in Physician Telemedicine Provision

Nate C Apathy  1 , Ram A Dixit  1 , Christian L Boxley  2 , Katharine T Adams  2 , Ethan Booker  3 , Raj M Ratwani  1
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Variations in Physician Telemedicine Provision

Nate C Apathy et al. JAMA Netw Open. .
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This cross-sectional study assesses variation in the provision of telemedicine services among primary care physicians and quantifies the extent to which this variation may be explained by the individual physician vs temporal, patient, or visit factors.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Mr Boxley reported receiving grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Variation Over Time in the Share of Visits Provided via Telemedicine
Box plots show medians (represented by horizontal lines) and IQRs (represented by lower and upper boundaries of boxes indicating 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively). Orange dots represent outliers, defined as points that were outside of 1.5 times the within-week IQRs.
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