Vendor-supplied physicians prescribed antibiotics during telehealth visits more than twice as often as emergency physicians affiliated with medical centers, according to a study.
“This started out as a quality improvement project. Mount Sinai, where I trained, piloted an on-demand telehealth service for employees and their beneficiaries,” Kathleen Y. Li, MD, MS, an emergency physician at Michigan Medicine, told Healio.
“We decided to take advantage of the fact that the calls were staffed by affiliated emergency physicians at some times and third-party contractor-based