Online Question-answering and Conventional Consultation With a Dermatologist

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Skin Diseases

Treatments: Procedure: observation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01969422

2013-0340

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison of online question-answering system and conventional consultation for dermatological questions:

• same diagnosis?
• same information, which had been collected?
• same recommendations about treatment?
• what were the relevant differences of the two?

Full description

mainly, ICD codes and dermatological diagnosis codes according to the AAD will be used.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1+ year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a conventional dermatological consultation after a question in the online question-answering system.

Exclusion criteria

-power of veto after information of patient

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

observation group

Description:

observation

Treatment:

Procedure: observation