Telehealth and Rural-Urban Differences in Receipt of Pain Care in the Veterans Health Administration

• Published in: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 466 - 474
• Main Authors: Chen, Jessica A, DeFaccio, Rian J, Gelman, Hannah, Thomas, Eva R, Indresano, Jess A, Dawson, Timothy C, Glynn, Lisa H, Sandbrink, Friedhelm, Zeliadt, Steven B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 02.03.2022
• Subjects: Behavior therapy; Care and treatment; Chronic pain; Chronic Pain - therapy; Distribution; Evaluation; Evidence-based medicine; Health aspects; Health care; Health care delivery; Health care disparities; Humans; Multidisciplinary teams; Pain; Pain management; Patients; Regional disparities; Retrospective Studies; Rural health care; Social aspects; Statistical analysis; Telemedicine; United States; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Urban health care; Veterans; Veterans Health; United States; Virginia; Washington; Telehealth; Behavior Therapy; Chronic Pain

Abstract Objective Examine changes in specialty pain utilization in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) after establishing a virtual interdisciplinary pain team (TelePain). Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting A single VHA healthcare system, 2015–2019. Subjects 33,169 patients with chroni...