Health Care Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Adoption of Telemedicine: Retrospective Study of Chronic Disease Cohorts

Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   David Anderson   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Kelley M Anderson   ³ , PhD, FNP ;   Omar Aljwfi   ⁴ , PhD ;   Alina Peluso   ⁵ , PhD ;   Adam Ghannoum   ⁶ ;   Gayle Balba   ⁷ , MD ;   Nawar Shara   ^{4, 8} , PhD

¹ Decisions, Operations and Information Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States

² Villanova School of Business, Villanova, PA, United States

³ School of Nursing, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

⁴ MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD, United States

⁵ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

⁶ University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States

⁷ Department of Infectious Diseases, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, United States

⁸ Department of Endocrinology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, United States

*these authors contributed equally