Telehealth May Lower Hospitalization Risk in Patients With IBD (GI & Endoscopy News)

A recent study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology found that televisit care—delivered via phone or video—for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) does not increase the risk of hospitalization and may even reduce it. The retrospective case-control study analyzed data from 534 IBD-related hospitalizations at Veterans Health Administration facilities between April 2021 and July 2022 and compared them with 534 non-hospitalized IBD patients. The results indicated that increased televisit care was linked to a lower likelihood of IBD-related hospitalizations (OR, 0.97; P=0.003).