Psychiatric News (8/9) reports, “Patients with depression who scheduled an appointment to see a psychiatrist between July 2020 and October 2022 were less likely to miss or cancel the appointment if it was virtual compared with in person,” investigators concluded after examining “electronic health records for 12,894 patients aged 10 or older with a diagnosis of depression who scheduled 586,266 psychiatric outpatient appointments at Johns Hopkins Medicine between November 2017 and October 2022.” The study team then “compared the number of in-person and telepsychiatry appointments that patients completed, cancelled, or failed to show up to before the pandemic with these outcomes of in-person and telepsychiatry appointments scheduled from July 2020 to October 2022.” The findings were published online Aug. 9 in the journal Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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— “Patients Found Less Likely to Cancel Telepsychiatry Visits, Study Shows, Psychiatric News , August 9, 2023