Table 3.
Provider Impressions About the Ability to Personally Connect During Teleneurology Encounters
| ABILITY TO PERSONALLY CONNECT |
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|---|---|---|---|
| WORSE, n (%) | SAME, n (%) | BETTER, n (%) | |
| Whole cohort | 148 (9) | 1,382 (86) | 73 (5) |
| Provider experience, years | |||
| <10 | 39 (6) | 580 (90) | 27 (4) |
| 10–19 | 27 (6) | 388 (89) | 23 (5) |
| 20–29 | 39 (14) | 229 (84) | 4 (1) |
| ≥30 | 43 (17) | 185 (75) | 19 (8) |
| Month of encounter | |||
| April | 17 (13) | 98 (78) | 11 (9) |
| May | 70 (10) | 596 (84) | 41 (6) |
| June | 52 (8) | 557 (90) | 10 (2) |
| July | 8 (6) | 112 (86) | 11 (8) |
| August | 1 (5) | 19 (95) | 0 (0) |
| Visit typea | |||
| New/consult | 32 (9) | 297 (88) | 10 (3) |
| Established | 115 (9) | 1,082 (86) | 62 (5) |
| Division | |||
| MS | 9 (3) | 247 (93) | 10 (4) |
| Headache | 5 (5) | 86 (91) | 3 (3) |
| Vascular | 21 (13) | 137 (86) | 2 (1) |
| Movement | 34 (8) | 343 (85) | 27 (7) |
| Cognitive | 12 (11) | 94 (89) | 0 (0) |
| General | 33 (9) | 303 (85) | 22 (6) |
| NM | 24 (20) | 96 (80) | 0 (0) |
| Epilepsy | 6 (16) | 30 (81) | 1 (3) |
| Residents | 4 (8) | 41 (84) | 4 (8) |
| Otherb | 0 (0) | 5 (56) | 4 (44) |
Numbers represent number of responses (percentage of group).
a
N = 1,598 due to missing billing code data.
b
Other includes neuro-ophthalmology and traumatic brain injury combined due to low response rate among these divisions. Established includes nonbilled visits. No. of responses per group is found in Table 3. No significant differences in the frequencies of those reporting the same or better were detected within groups for all provider or patient characteristics.