在老年人中使用远程皮肤病学:对跨年龄组的远程皮肤病学利用模式的分析
Audrey Hao1, Kaviyon Sadrolashrafi2, Robin Kikuchi1
1Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
概括
老年患者使用远程皮肤病理比年轻的成年人少,这表明老年人对远程医疗的潜在障碍. 需要进一步的研究来改善通过远程医疗提供皮肤病护理的公平提供.
科学领域:
- 皮肤病学 皮肤病学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 老年病的医生 老年病的医生
背景情况:
- 远程医疗提供了更好的医疗保健服务,特别是皮肤病.
- 有限的研究存在于基于年龄的差异在远程皮肤学利用.
- 了解这些差异对于公平的医疗保健服务至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较老年人和年轻的皮肤病患者之间的远程皮肤病学使用情况.
- 确定不同年龄人口群体在远程医疗采用的潜在差异.
主要方法:
- 使用2020-2021年医疗支出小组调查进行的横截面研究.
- 分析了超过1.5亿名患者的加权样本,分为年轻人 (18-44岁),中年人 (45-64岁) 和老年人 (65岁以上).
- 为人口,社会经济和临床因素进行统计调整.
主要成果:
- 与年轻成年人 (OR = 0.184) 和中年成年人 (OR = 0.193) 相比,老年患者的远程皮肤病治疗使用率显著降低.
- 中年成人与年轻成年人 (OR = 1.044) 的远程医疗使用率相似.
- 经过多个混变量调整后,结果仍然显著.
结论:
- 与年轻人相比,老年人不太可能在皮肤病学中使用远程皮肤病学服务.
- 显著的障碍可能会阻碍老年人采用远程医疗.
- 解决这些障碍对于提高所有年龄组的远程皮肤病学可访问性和有效性至关重要.
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