Quality Of Care For Acute Respiratory Infections During Direct-To-Consumer Telemedicine Visits For Adults

In direct-to-consumer telemedicine, physicians treat patients through real-time audiovisual conferencing for common conditions such as acute respiratory infections. Early studies had mixed findings on the quality of care provided during direct-to-consumer telemedicine and were limited by small sample sizes and narrow geographic scopes. Using claims data for 2015–16 from a large national commercial insurer, we examined the quality of antibiotic...