{"id":7267,"date":"2023-02-03T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2023-02-02T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:47:50","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-persons-who-used-telemedicine-during-the-past-12-months-by-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/02\/03\/7267\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Persons Who Used Telemedicine During the Past 12 Months, by Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7205a2.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7205a2-F.gif?_=65007\" width=\"340\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, approximately one third (32.8%) of persons of all ages had a telemedicine appointment with a doctor, nurse, or other health professional during the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage with a telemedicine appointment increased with age, from 17.2% among children aged &lt;10 years to 45.5% among adults aged 70\u201379 years, and then decreased to 39.3% among adults aged \u226580 years.<\/p>\n<p>Telemedicine use among adults aged \u226580 years was similar to that among adults aged 40\u201349, 50\u201359, and 60\u201369 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7205a2.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7205a2.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, approximately one third (32.8%) of persons of all ages had a telemedicine appointment with a doctor, nurse, or other health professional during the past 12 months. The percentage with a telemedicine appointment increased with age, from 17.2% among children aged &lt;10 years to 45.5% among adults aged 70\u201379 years, and then decreased to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63673,53746,53752],"tags":[63786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}