NCT04496310

Tele-epic (Telemedicine for Epilepsy Care)

Telemedicine With Mobile Internet Devices for Innovative Care of Patients With Epilepsy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Azienda Usl di Bologna · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Epilepsy is a chronic condition that requires consistent follow-up aimed at seizure control, surveillance of comorbidities, monitoring of antiepileptic drugs (AED) levels and side effects. Patients may encounter difficulties to be assessed adequately and the disease burden is increased by the need for travelling across the country for medical consultations. Driving restrictions are a further limit to access specialized Centers able to provide an integrated approach focused on patient needs. Telemedicine (TM) offers an invaluable support to patient follow-up, joining the sparse distribution of patients in the country with the prompt availability of a team of experts. The project assesses, through a randomized controlled trial, the non-inferiority of TM in monitoring seizure control compared to usual (face-to-face) care. This approach, coupled with a new self home-sampling method for the measurement of AED levels, will reduce health care costs and simplify patients management.

Conditions

• Epilepsy
• Epileptic Encephalopathy
• Refractory Epilepsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Telemedicine	Telemedicine versus usual care (face to face visit)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-09
• Primary completion: 2023-07-08
• Completion: 2023-07-08
• First posted: 2020-08-03
• Last updated: 2022-02-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Italy