According to a study of the DREES, this supposed practice facilitates access to care in medical deserts is mainly used by doctors installed in the most urbanized territories.
mo12345lemonde With AFP
Remote consultation is not yet the remedy for “medical deserts”. According to a study published Thursday, December 8 by the Statistical Directorate of Health and Social Ministries (DREES), patients who “teleconsult” general practitioners are on average more urban and younger than people received in their offices.
Remote consultation is not yet the remedy for the “medical deserts” of the countryside.
“In Ile-de-France, 7.8 % of the activity of liberal general practitioners corresponds to remote consultations in 2021 (12 % in Paris and 7.2 % in the suburbs of the Paris Urban Pole) , against 2.2 % in rural areas outside the overseas, “said Drees.
a strong increase in practice from the pandemic
Teleconsultations are also more often carried out for young patients, whatever the territory of residence: in 2021, 45.2 % were with people aged 15 to 44, against 28.7 % of consultations in cabinet.
Another teaching: teleconsultations do not seem to aim mainly to abolish distances, since for 58.6 % of them the doctor exercises in the town of the patient of the patient or less than 5 kilometers.
Unsurprisingly, the study generally confirms the sharp increase in remote controls under the effect of the COVVI-19 crisis. Liberal generalists made 13.5 million in 2020, then 9.4 million in 2021, while there had only been 80,000 in 2019. The practice settles in the duration, but remains infrequent : it represented 3.7 % of the activity of general liberal medicine in 2021. Less than home visits.