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Telemedicine (Virtual Clinic) for Pediatric Surgery During Covid-19 Pandemic

NCT04990570 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1396

Last updated 2021-08-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Telemedicine (Virtual Clinic) Effectively Delivers the Required Health-care Service to Pediatric Day-case Surgical Patients in the Current Era of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Non-randomized Controlled Study

Conditions

  • Telemedicine
  • Virtual Clinic
  • Covid19
  • Pandemic

Interventions

OTHER

Telemedicine in the form Virtual clinic via video consultation

Pediatric patients, with age ranging from 1 month-14 years, with surgical problems, encountered during the era of Covid-19 pandemic. Some of them seen at the OPD clinic, while the majority failed to attend because of Covid-19 associated lock-down and Curfew, thus, rendering their approach to the service. Telemedicine, in the form of Virtual clinic, was utilized to address the distressing problem of difficult approach of patients to the pedia surgery OPD because of Covid-19 pandemic restrictive regulatory precautions, to aid in conveying their concerns and bridge the gap in surgeon-patient relationship \& encounter.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • dr. Muhammad Abdelhafez Mahmoud, MD

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Muhammad Elsayed AH Mahmoud, MD · Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Month
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-01
Primary Completion
2020-06-07
Completion
2021-07-31

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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