Table 3.
Distance, time, fuel and public transportation per patient (all visits), between April and December 2020
Variable | Cali n=19 630 n=814 |
Valle del Cauca excluding Cali n=5703 |
Outside of Valle del Cauca n=2615 |
Teleconsultations per patient, mean (SD) | 2.10 (2.54) | 2.23 (3.14) | 2.05 (2.28) |
Distance saved per patient (km), mean (SD) | 30.64 (52.80) | 227.17 (398.38) | 988.33 (1556.41) |
Time saved per patients (hours), mean (SD) | 2.06 (2.90) | 5.98 (9.26) | 21.23 (51.47) |
Potential loss of productivity (USD), mean (SD) | 5.51 (7.75) | 34.25 (60.7 | 56.63 (137.33) |
Fuel cost saved per patient (USD), mean (SD) | 4.62 (7.96) | 32.54 (65.51) | 149.02 (234.67) |
Cost of public transportation saved* (USD), mean (SD) | 23.47 (40.44) | 15.97 (24.70) | 156.62 (251.04) |
Saved transportation costs for municipalities with exclusively air income (USD),* mean (SD) | NA | NA | 658.52 (392.49) |
*Refers to teleconsultations from people living in areas with no land access: Guapi (Cauca), Timbiquí (Cauca), Leticia (Amazonas) and San Andres (San Andres y Providencia).
NA, not apply.