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cord-270876-kul6bs3w	Morris, Nathaniel P.	Virtual Visits and the Future of No-Shows	2020-06-08		.txt	text/plain	1301	71	53	2 By allowing patients to remotely attend appointments through audiovisual applications, virtual visits bring promise for decreasing outpatient no-shows. Patients can attend virtual visits from anywhere, including their homes, their workplaces, or even their parked cars, decreasing the burdens of making it to in-person appointments. In the study of general surgery outpatients from 2018, 123 (55%) of 223 patients reported they would prefer in-person appointments over virtual ones, even when accounting for the time and cost of coming to in-person appointments. 2 Patients and clinicians might struggle with setting up the technology needed for virtual visits, which might waste time and resources. For example, a 2019 study from Canada of home virtual visits for 75 patients at a stroke prevention clinic reported a no-show rate of 2 (3%) out of 81 appointments, but the study did not include comparisons of no-show rates for in-person clinic visits. Why do patients miss their appointments at primary care clinics?	./cache/cord-270876-kul6bs3w.txt	./txt/cord-270876-kul6bs3w.txt