QuickStats: Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Who Had Telephone Or Internet/Email Consults with Patients — National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2018 and 2020

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• Alternative Title:
  Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Who Had Telephone or Internet/Email Consults with Patients — National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2018 and 2020
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Peters, Zachary J. ; Schappert, Susan ; Cherry, Donald
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  The percentage of office-based physicians who reported having telephone consults with patients during their last normal week of practice increased from 35.8% in 2018 to 57.4% in 2020. The percentage who reported having Internet/email consults with patients also increased from 13.9% in 2018 to 26.8% in 2020. In both years, physicians were more likely to report having telephone than Internet/email consults.
  
  Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2018 and 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd/ ahcd_questionnaires.htm
  
  Reported by: Zachary J. Peters; Susan Schappert, MA; Donald Cherry, MS.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Electronic Mail Health Care Surveys Humans Internet Physicians Telephone
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 71(13):505
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  71
• Issue:
  13
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
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