NCT02947958

Teleconsultation in Counter-reference Between Tertiary and Primary Care for Patients With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Use of Teleconsultation in Qualifying Counter-reference Between Tertiary and Primary Care for Patients With Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Randomized Clinical Trial of Noninferiority

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 299 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the effectiveness of the use of teleconsultation in qualifying counter-reference between tertiary and primary care for patients with stable benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) symptoms.

Detailed description

The effectiveness of the use of teleconsultation will be evaluated by the initial international prostate symptom score (IPSS) in patients randomized to the standard monitoring (tertiary hospital) and teleconsultation monitoring (primary care) and after twelve months.

Conditions

• Prostatic Hyperplasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Teleconsultation	Teleconsultation - the teleconsultation usage in chronic diseases, such as benign hyperplasia, seems to be a promising scenario. Once the patient symptoms are evaluated and diagnosed as a stable disease he is able to keep his treatment annually. In a way to do not overload de tertiary system, such monitoring could be done under a teleconsultation with a urological supervision in the primary care.
OTHER	Hospital (control)	The patient will keep his usual care at the tertiary care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2016-10-28
• Last updated: 2020-12-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil