: Expansion of telehealth in pediatrics has occurred without evaluation of how communication, such as shared decision making (SDM), is impacted.
Methods
: We recorded telehealth and in-person pediatric primary care visits and then scored them using an adaptation of the Informed Decisions Measure (IDM). We compared the total score for telehealth versus in-person through mixed effect models with random intercept for clinicians.
Results
: We observed 88 visits (46 telehealth and 42 in-person). The mean parent IDM score for telehealth was 5.43 ± 3.34 and for in-person was 5.19 ± 3.39. For adolescent patients, the mean IDM score for telehealth was 4.00 ± 3.26 and for in-person was 5.43 ± 3.8. There was no statistical difference between in-person visits and telehealth visits for parents or adolescents.
Conclusions
: The lack of difference in SDM between telehealth and in-person pediatric care provides an opportunity to develop training approaches that would work for either modality.
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