NCT04376710

Surgical Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 31 Days – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

• COVID
• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-01
• Primary completion: 2020-10-01
• Completion: 2020-10-01
• First posted: 2020-05-06
• Last updated: 2020-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States