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. 2024 May 1;14(5):e084447. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-084447

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.