Cost-effectiveness of Tele-expertise for Premature Infants for Retinopathy (Dite-ROP)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Retinopathy of Prematurity

Treatments: Device: Infants hospitalized in health facilities performing Tele-expertise

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02157727

TLM-DITEROP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether telemedicine would be as effective as having a pediatrics ophthalmologist on site for screening examination of retinopathy in premature infants and would be cost-effective.

Enrollment: 843 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Born before 32 WA or having a birth weight under 1500g

Exclusion criteria

• Brain malformations

Trial design

843 participants in 4 patient groups

Exposed group, during Tele-expertise

Description:

Infants hospitalized in health facilities performing tele-expertise

Treatment:

Device: Infants hospitalized in health facilities performing Tele-expertise

Exposed group, Prior Tele-expertise

Description:

Infants hospitalized in health facilities performing Tele-expertise prior implementation of Tele-expertise

Control group, Prior Tele-expertise

Control group, during Tele-expertise

Description:

Infants hospitalized in health facilities not performing Tele-expertise while the exposed group use Tele-expertise