NCT01296841

Telemedicine To Provide Inflammatory Bowel Disease Outpatient Care

A Randomized Controlled Pilot: Use of Telemedicine To Provide Inflammatory Bowel Disease Outpatient Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Palo Alto Health Care System · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that outpatient clinical care of Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients may be provided using a new computerized system over standard network - called Collaborative Imaging - with similar patient experience compared to a conventional clinic visit.

Detailed description

Significant advances in gastroenterology have led the field to grow into a number of advanced subspecialties: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), motility, therapeutic endoscopy, and transplant hepatology. Telemedicine, the application of information technology in support of health care delivery from a distance, has been employed with good success in various chronic conditions with excellent patient satisfaction. Primary Aim: Our primary study endpoint was measuring patient clinical experience between two groups: A telemedicine remote clinic visit and a standard "in-house" visit. Secondary Aim: To compare standard clinic metrics including clinic wait time, patient throughput, and appointment time between the two groups.

Conditions

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis
• Crohn's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Collaborative Imaging	Hardware and software communication tools to provide clinical care from a distance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2011-02-16
• Last updated: 2017-03-03
• Results posted: 2013-02-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States