Patient Satisfaction with Virtual Obstetric Care
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Patient Satisfaction with Virtual Obstetric Care Bethann Mangel Pflugeisen1 · Jin Mou1
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017
Abstract Introduction The importance of patient satisfaction in US healthcare is increasing, in tandem with the advent of new patient care modalities, including virtual care. The purpose of this study was to compare the satisfaction of obstetric patients who received one-third of their antenatal visits in videoconference (“Virtual-care”) compared to those who received 12–14 face-to-face visits inclinic with their physician/midwife (“Traditional-care”). Methods We developed a four-domain satisfaction questionnaire; Virtual-care patients were asked additional questions about technology. Using a modified Dillman method, satisfaction surveys were sent to Virtual-care (N = 378) and Traditional-care (N = 795) patients who received obstetric services at our institution between January 2013 and June 2015. Chi-squared tests of association, t-tests, logistic regression, and ANOVA models were used to evaluate differences in satisfaction and self-reported demographics between respondents. Results Overall satisfaction was significantly higher in the Virtual-care cohort (4.76 ± 0.44 vs. 4.47 ± 0.59; p
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