Title page
Contents
Why this study? 2
Research questions 4
Finding 7
Limitations 13
Implications 13
Appendix A. Details on the sample and analytic methods 15
Appendix B. Supplemental tables 19
References 25
Figure 1. Percentage of students who used school-based telemedicine services at least once in each trimester 7
Figure 2. Students' use of school-based telemedicine services from 2017/18 to 2018/19 - all students and by grade level as of 2017/18 8
Figure 3. Students' use of school-based telemedicine services from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by race/ethnicity 9
Figure 4. School-based telemedicine visits from 2017/18 to 2018/19 - all visits and by grade level at the time of the visit 10
Figure 5. School-based telemedicine visits from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by race/ethnicity 11
Figure 6. Return-to-class rates for school-based telemedicine visits during 2017/18 and 2018/19 - all visits and by grade level at the time of the visit 12
Boxes
Box 1. Key terms 5
Box 2. Data sources, sample, and methods 6
Table A1. Cohort of students followed from 2017/18 to 2018/19 for research questions 1 and 2 - overall and by grade level as of 2017/18 15
Table A2. Cohort of students followed from 2017/18 to 2018/19 for research question 2 - analysis by race/ethnicity 15
Table A3. Study sample for research questions 3 and 4 - overall and by grade level at the time of the visit 16
Table A4. Study sample for research questions 3 and 4 - analysis by race/ethnicity 16
Table A5. Reasons for school-based telemedicine visits and related ICD-10-CM categories 17
Table B1. Number and percentage of students who used telemedicine services at least once in each trimester 19
Table B2. Rate of students' use of school-based telemedicine services from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by grade level as of 2017/18 19
Table B3. Rate of students' use of school-based telemedicine services from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by age as of 2017/18 20
Table B4. Rate of students' use of school-based telemedicine services from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by race/ethnicity 21
Table B5. Number and percentage of telemedicine visit types from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by grade level at the time of the visit and by race/ethnicity 22
Table B6. Return-to-class rates for telemedicine visits from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by grade level at the time of the visit and by race/ethnicity 23
Table B7. Average instructional hours remaining for telemedicine visits that resulted in students returning to class from 2017/18 to 2018/19, by grade level at the time of the visit and by race/ethnicity 24