Effective Access to Care in a Crisis Period: Hypertension Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Telemedicine

To assess the effectiveness of telemedicine video visits in the management of hypertensive patients at home during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.A quantitative analysis was performed of all home video visits coded with a diagnosis of essential hypertension during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 through February 2021). A total of 10,634 patients with 16,194 hypertension visits were present in our national...