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cord-322918-9w727lpn	Dewar, Shenbagam	Uptake of Virtual Visits in A Geriatric Primary Care Clinic During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	2020-05-15		.txt	text/plain	1317	76	48	Herein, we share our experience in providing telehealth for patients in a geriatric primary care clinic. Our multisite geriatric clinic, which provides more than 300 primary and geriatric specialty visits weekly within an academic healthcare system, moved quickly to transform most of in-person clinical appointments to virtual care format. In the course of 5 weeks, by eliminating nonurgent in-person visits and rapid implementation of virtual care, we ramped up from zero to 91% of total geriatric primary and outpatient specialty care visits ( Figure 1 ). Virtual care transformation was made possible by institutional commitment, as well as efforts by individual physicians, office staff, information technology specialist, and patients and caregivers. We recognized that the leading concern about telehealth visits among older adults is that healthcare Figure 1 Increasing use of telephone and video virtual care after Michigan shelter-in-place order.	./cache/cord-322918-9w727lpn.txt	./txt/cord-322918-9w727lpn.txt