Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Richard Wootton
ORCID ID
Contact details
Institute of Telemedicine and Telecare
Royals Hospitals Trust
Belfast
BT12 6BA
United Kingdom
r.wootton@pobox.com
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
PSI03-33
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Comparison of real time teledermatology with outpatient dermatology in terms of clinical outcomes, cost-benefits, and patient reattendance.
Ethics approval
Received from local medical ethics committee
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Other
Trial type
Diagnostic
Patient information sheet
Condition
Skin and connective tissue diseases
Intervention
Patients randomised to a teledermatology consultation attended their own health centre and, in the company of a general practitioner, were seen by a hospital dermatologist over the videolink. Patients randomised to a hospital consultation were seen by the dermatologist in the outpatient department as normal. The dermatologist recorded a diagnosis, management plan, clinical outcome of consultation, and length of consultation time. All patients received an accelerated referral and were seen within 10 days.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Applicable
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
1. Reported clinical outcome of initial consultation
2. Primary care and outpatient reattendance data
3. Cost-benefit analysis of both methods of delivering care
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/06/1995
Overall trial end date
01/12/2000
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
204 general practice patients requiring referral to dermatology services; 102 were randomised to teledermatology consultation and 102 to traditional outpatient consultation.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
204
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
01/06/1995
Recruitment end date
01/12/2000
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Institute of Telemedicine and Telecare
Belfast
BT12 6BA
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHS R&D 'Time-Limited' National Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Primary and Secondary Care Interface National Research and Development Programme (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
1. 1998 preliminary results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9640716
2. 2000 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10797038
Publication citations
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Preliminary results
Loane MA, Gore HE, Bloomer SE, Corbett R, Eedy DJ, Mathews C, Steele K, Wootton R, Preliminary results from the Northern Ireland arms of the UK Multicentre Teledermatology Trial: is clinical management by realtime teledermatology possible?, J Telemed Telecare, 1998, 4 Suppl 1, 3-5.
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Results
Wootton R, Bloomer SE, Corbett R, Eedy DJ, Hicks N, Lotery HE, Mathews C, Paisley J, Steele K, Loane MA, Multicentre randomised control trial comparing real time teledermatology with conventional outpatient dermatological care: societal cost-benefit analysis., BMJ, 2000, 320, 7244, 1252-1256.