Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patients receiving care through telemedicine compared to patients from concurrent and retrospective control groups.

Characteristics		Telemedicine group (n=8592), n (%)	Concurrent control group (n=51,290), n (%)	P value	Retrospective control group (n=127,669), n (%)	P value
Gender (female), n (%)		5376 (62.6)	31,436 (61.4)	.024	77,845 (61.0)	.003
Age category (years), n (%)		N/Aa	N/A	<.001	N/A	<.001
	0-18	1749 (20.4)	11,855 (23.1)	N/A	34,357 (26.9)	N/A
	19-64	5725 (66.6)	31,607 (61.6)	N/A	73,632 (57.7)	N/A
	≥65	1118 (13.0)	7828 (15.3)	N/A	19,680 (15.4)	N/A
Private health insurance, n (%)		7542 (87.8)	21,319 (41.6)	<.001	56,495 (44.3)	<.001
Resident of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, n (%)		6529 (76.0)	42,833 (83.5)	<.001	111,822 (87.6)	<.001

^aN/A: not applicable.