Data from 338 practicing US-based dermatologists were analyzed (Table 1). Academic/Government dermatologists were 4-times more likely (OR 4.08, 95%CI 2.37-7.03) to adopt teledermatology pre-COVID than private practice dermatologists. Dermatologists with ≤10 years of experience (YoE) were 1.8-times (OR 1.8, 95%CI 1.01-3.18) and 2.82-times more likely (OR 2.82, 95%CI 0.78-10.25) to adopt teledermatology pre-COVID-19 (ie, early-adopters (EAs)) or at all, respectively, compared to dermatologists with ≥20 YoE. No significant relationship existed between TAT and practice location (X2(14, n=338)=10.87, P=.70) even after stratification by US Census Bureau region, section codes (ie, first three digits in a given area code), or population density (ie, urban (≥50,000 persons/zip code) or rural (<50,000 person/zip code)).
Teledermatology-adopters practiced proportionally more medical-dermatology (P<.0001; Tukey-Kramer α<.05) than nonadopters (NAs), who reported proportionally more dermatologic
