The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to an unprecedented demand for
health care at a distance, and telehealth (the delivery of patient care using …

Telemedicine was underused and understudied until the COVID-19 pandemic, during which
reduced regulations and increased payment parity facilitated a rapid increase in …

Climate change is driven primarily by humanity's use of fossil fuels and the resultant
greenhouse gases from their combustion. The effects of climate change on human health …

Importance Urgent Care (UC) encounters result in more inappropriate antibiotic
prescriptions than other outpatient setting. Few stewardship interventions have focused on …

Although antibiotics have been indispensable in the advancement of modern medicine,
there are downsides to their use. Growing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics is …

Although COVID-19 has captured most of the public health attention, antimicrobial
resistance (AMR) has not disappeared. To prevent the escape of resistant microorganisms …

Importance Prior research found that pediatric direct-to-consumer (DTC) telemedicine visits
are associated with more antibiotic prescribing than in-person primary care visits. It is …

Background Electronic visits (e-visits) involve asynchronous communication between
clinicians and patients through a secure web-based platform, such as a patient portal, to …

The rapid expansion of telemedicine has highlighted challenges and opportunities to
improve antibiotic use and effectively adapt antibiotic stewardship best practices to …

Objective To examine differences between telephone and video-televisits and identify
whether visit modality is associated with satisfaction in an urban, academic general urology …