NCT05019144

Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention

A Novel Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention (TOBI) for Pediatric Burn-injured Patients and Their Caregivers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 0 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Because burn patients and their caregivers often live long distances from regional burn centers, access to expert burn care is limited, resulting in a negative effect on adherence to treatment and a higher risk of wound complication. A novel smartphone application synchronized with a web portal for providers, called the Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention (TOBI), was recently developed to enable burn experts to direct burn wound care while the patient and caregiver are home through text messaging, image transfer, and video-conferencing. The goal of the present study is evaluate TOBI compared to face-to-face care as usual for pediatric patients/caregivers visiting a burn center. This study will also assess the feasibility of conducting a larger-scale clinical trial in several burn centers. The app will allow the physician and patient/caregivers to make instant decisions regarding treatment, allowing for "turn on a dime" treatment decisions, rather than having the patients and families wait for scheduled clinic appointments, often hours away from home. This "on demand" medical care takes an innovative approach to increasing access to burn experts through smartphone technology and addressing adherence to prescribed treatment by increasing communication between provider and patients.

Conditions

• Burns
• Pediatric ALL

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Face-to-face burn care	If the participants are assigned to FTF care, they will receive standard burn care including a return follow-up in the burn clinic on a routine basis as prescribed by the clinical burn team (at least once per week) until the burn has healed.
PROCEDURE	Telemedicine enhanced burn care	Participants assigned to TOBI will be given instructions how to download and use TOBI on a smartphone, including how to interface with burn clinicians using text-messaging, videoconferencing, and sending photos of the child's burn(s). The participants will have scheduled video visits with the care provider at least weekly until the burn has healed. The participants will be able to use other features of the app, such as text-messaging and sending photos of the burn(s), as needed. The participants will be able to use standard FTF burn care as well. They will be given instructions how to contact the burn team through the hospital paging operator if TOBI is unavailable or there is an emergency.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-08
• Completion: 2024-03-08
• First posted: 2021-08-24
• Last updated: 2025-07-11
• Results posted: 2025-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States