Table I.
Comparison of patient composition and no-show rates in clinic versus teledermatology visits for all patients and stratified by patient demographic subgroups
| Patient demographics | Percent no-show (no-show visits/total visits) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Televisits | Clinic visits | P value | |
| All | 4.0% (63/1568) | 13.4% (711/5315) | <.0001∗ |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 4.9% (47/969) | 14.2% (423/2992) | <.0001∗ |
| Male | 2.7% (16/599) | 12.4% (288/2322) | <.0001∗ |
| Primary language | |||
| Non-English | 5.6% (8/143) | 12.5% (174/742) | <.0001∗ |
| English | 3.9% (55/1425) | 11.8% (538/4573) | <.0001∗ |
| Race/Ethnicity | Adjusted P value | ||
| Asian | 2.9% (2/69) | 14.2% (24/169) | .15 |
| Black or African American | 2.6% (2/77) | 30.4% (68/224) | .0006∗ |
| LatinX | 7.0% (17/242) | 27.7% (229/826) | .0006∗ |
| Other | 6.6% (4/61) | 25.1% (53/211) | .04 |
| Unknown | 1.8% (1/55) | 13.3% (20/151) | .18 |
| White | 3.5% (37/1064) | 8.5% (318/3734) | .0006∗ |
| Age, y | |||
| <50 | 4.3% (41/964) | 18.7% (423/2268) | <.0001∗ |
| ≥50 | 3.6% (22/604) | 8.6% (289/3372) | <.0001∗ |
| Insurance payer | Completed televisits | Completed clinic visits | Adjusted P value |
| Private | 60.6% (975/1607) | 54.5% (2462/4514) | .08 |
| Medicaid | 25.5% (410/1607) | 19.6% (885/4514) | .0003∗ |
| Medicare | 13.8% (222/1607) | 25.9 % (1167/4514) | .0003∗ |
| Total | 1607 | 4514 | |
∗
Statistically significant.