Table 2.

Recommended uses for telephone versus video visits for outpatients with IBD

TELEPHONE VERSUS VIDEO USETELEPHONE VISITVIDEO VISIT
Recommended use
  • Patients with constraints to successful video consultations (eg, no Wi-Fi, lack of access to devices, limited data plans, low technological literacy)

  • Routine follow-up or informing patients about normal results of diagnostic tests

  • Requiring visual examination (eg, skin and ostomy concerns)

  • Flaring and newly diagnosed patients

  • Discussion about IBD management

  • Engaging with family members and caregivers (eg, often during pediatric patients’ transition to adult care and when caring for seniors supported by caregivers)

  • IBD—inflammatory bowel disease.

  • Data from Barsom et al.4