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. 2020 Aug 24:10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000000398. doi: 10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000000398

Table 2.

Provider attitudes toward telehealth and correlation with frequency of performing telehealth in the initial survey.

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Statement Strongly Disagree, n (%) Somewhat Disagree, n (%) Neither Agree nor Disagree, n (%) Somewhat Agree, n (%) Strongly Agree, n (%) Correlation with the No. of Audio Visits Performed, Spearman σ (95% CI) Correlation with the No. of Video Visits Performed, Spearman σ (95% CI)
Telehealth will play an important role in eyecare after the COVID-19 pandemic 1 (2) 2 (5) 5 (12) 15 (35) 20 (47) 0.43 (0.14, 0.73); P = .003 0.35 (0.07, 0.65); P = .02
Telehealth should play an important role in eyecare after the COVID-19 pandemic 0 2 (5) 1 (2) 17 (40) 23 (54) 0.37 (0.07, 0.69); P = .01 0.35 (0.06, 0.67); P = .02
The development of validated tools for remote assessment of visual acuity will be important for facilitating the adoption of telehealth in eyecare 0 0 0 6 (14) 37 (86) 0.37 (0.07, 0.80); P = .01 0.35 (−0.04, 0.71); P = .02
The development of remote imaging capabilities will be important for facilitating the adoption of telehealth in eyecare 0 0 1 (2) 10 (23) 32 (74) 0.26 (−0.13, 0.68); P = .09 0.21 (−0.18, 0.58); P = .17