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Surgical Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

NCT04376710 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2020-10-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The current COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays in initial or follow-up encounters between surgical patients and physicians. While this delay allows for resource allocation to those most severely affected by the pandemic, surgeons are faced with potential important delays in diagnosis and the expanding backlog of elective cases and initial evaluations.

This project will assess surgeon and patient telemedicine perspectives. Pre-pandemic views on telemedicine among a cohort of surgeons will be obtained and compared to views at 3 months from the peak of the pandemic. Patients will be surveyed following telemedicine appointments with an anonymous questionnaire to learn about patient receptiveness to telemedicine. Barriers to implementation will be addressed throughout the duration of the study.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Completion of pre-pandemic survey

Surgeons will take a pre-pandemic survey to determine surgeon perceptions to telemedicine and barriers to implementation.

OTHER

Completion of survey after peak of pandemic

Surgeons will take another survey after the peak of pandemic to determine surgeon perceptions to telemedicine and barriers to implementation.

OTHER

Completion of post telemedicine encounter survey

Patients will take a post telemedicine encounter survey to determine patient perceptions to telemedicine and barriers to implementation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
31 Days
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-01
Primary Completion
2020-10-01
Completion
2020-10-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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