Rachel Gold, PhD, MPH
Articles
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management During COVID-19: In-Person vs Virtual Visits
This article compares cardiovascular disease risk management in community clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic among patients for whom primary care was delivered mostly in person vs mostly virtually.
Pandemic-Related Practice Changes and CVD Risk Management in Community Clinics
Compared with in-person appointments, virtual care appointments were associated with higher completion rates, shorter time to appointment, increased hemoglobin A1c documentation, and decreased blood pressure documentation.
African Americans had more asthma-specific emergency care utilization, and African Americans and Native Americans/Aleutians/Eskimos were more likely to report lower asthma-specific quality-of-life scores, than whites.
