{"id":6379,"date":"2022-04-01T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T15:30:00","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/04\/01\/6379\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats:\u00a0Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Who Had Telephone or Internet\/Email Consults with Patients\u00a0\u2014 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2018 and 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7113a4-F.gif?_=49811\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"259\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage who reported having Internet\/email consults with patients also increased from 13.9% in 2018 to 26.8% in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In both years, physicians were more likely to report having telephone than Internet\/email consults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2018 and 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/about_ahcd.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ahcd\/about_ahcd.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7113a4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7113a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63683,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}