Table 2.
Associations between VA station characteristics and VT2H usage as indicated by tertile ranking for the number of weeks the station reported >10% of PCLIPVs conducted by VT2H during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 1, 2020–July 31, 2021).
| Tertile |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA station characteristics | Low (0–2 weeks) | Medium (3–43 weeks) | High (44–72 weeks) | P-value a |
| Total number of PCLIPs, mean (SD) | 51.59 (36.44) | 49.07 (27.72) | 62.98 (29.42) | .097 |
| % of Veterans seen that live in rural areas, mean (SD)b | 48.11 (20.43) | 42.3 (24.50) | 22.74 (15.12) | .001 |
| VA station district, N (%) | .140 | |||
| Continental | 9 (39.13) | 11 (47.82) | 3 (2.36) | |
| Midwest | 10 (38.46) | 10 (38.46) | 6 (23.08) | |
| North Atlantic | 12 (33.33) | 11 (30.56) | 13 (36.11) | |
| Pacific | 7 (31.82) | 4 (18.18) | 11 (50.00) | |
| Southeast | 3 (15.00) | 8 (40.00) | 9 (45.00) | |
| VA station complexity, mean (SD)c | 2.97 (1.53) | 2.67 (1.63) | 3.93 (1.26) | <.001 |
a
Based on ANOVA or chi-square statistical tests.
b
Percentage of Veterans seen by PCLIPs during the observation period that lived in rural or highly rural areas.
c
Complexity ranked from 1 (low complexity) to 5 (highest complexity).