Medico-economical Assessment of Telemedicine During Chronic Diabetes-related Foot Wound Management

NCT01814267 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2018-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to assess the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine in the care of chronic diabetic foot ulcers.

Patients will be randomized into 2 groups: 1/conventional care group with iterative visits to diabetes specialist or 2/innovative care (telemedicine group).

the health insurance system perspective is adopted.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

telemedicine

Intervention group: care and follow-up through telemedicine (e-consultations) * 1 hospital consultation at inclusion time, week 0 * then every 15 days, after the transmission of medical data and photos via internet by the nurse, telemedicine e-consultations until the wound has healed (week 2,week 4, week 6, week 8, week 10, week 12, week 14, week 16, week 18, week 20, week 22, week 24 : end point study), i.e. 12 e-consultations over a 6-month period. * 1 hospital consultation to validate that the wound is well-healed

OTHER

conventional

conventional group: iterative diabetes physicians consultations at hospital * 1 consultation at inclusion time, week 0 * 1 consultation 2 weeks after inclusion, week 2 * 1 consultation per month until the wound has healed (week 4, week 8, week 12, week 16, week 20, week 24: end-point study), i.e. 6 consultations over a 6-month period * 1 consultation to validate that the wound is well-healed

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Grenoble

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pierre-Yves BENHAMOU, MD PHD · University Hospital, Grenoble

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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