Oral Pathology Asynchronous Telementoring Pilot Study

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oral Cancer

Treatments: Other: Imaging using intraoral cameras

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04166214

19-01268

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the proposed research project is to evaluate and enhance the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a tele-mentoring component into the identification of oral lesions at the 6 dental clinics of Family Health Centers at NYU Langone (FHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Brooklyn, NY.

Full description

The tele-mentoring intervention involves training dental faculty members and residents to use intraoral cameras to take photographs of oral lesions and place them in the Dentrix electronic health record (EHR), along with descriptions of the lesions. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study will evaluate and enhance the feasibility and acceptability of integrating a tele-mentoring component into the identification of oral lesions at the 6 FHC dental clinics.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Dental patients will be eligible for study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
2. Live in any of the 5 boroughs of New York, NY and visit a participating FHC dental clinic for routine dental care.
3. Able and willing to provide informed consent, have their oral lesion(s) photograph(s) and accompanying data entered into the Dentrix EHR, and participate in an exit interview.

Dental providers will be eligible for study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
2. Be employed as a dentist or placed as a dental resident at a participating FHC dental clinic.
3. Able and willing to provide informed consent and participate in feasibility testing (provider survey or semi-structured interview).

Exclusion criteria

Dental patients will be excluded from study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Have an acute or terminal illness or a serious mental illness or any other severe health condition(s) that might preclude visiting an oral health care provider.
2. Are currently participating in another oral health study.

Dental providers will be excluded from study participation if they meet the following criteria:

1. Have an acute or terminal illness or a serious mental illness or any other severe health condition(s) that might preclude them from completing the feasibility testing.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

Dental Providers

Experimental group

Description:

The tele-mentoring intervention involves training dental faculty members and residents to use intraoral cameras to take photographs of oral lesions and place them in the Dentrix electronic health record (EHR), along with descriptions of the lesions.

Treatment:

Other: Imaging using intraoral cameras

Dental Patients

Experimental group

Description:

The tele-mentoring intervention involves training dental faculty members and residents to use intraoral cameras to take photographs of oral lesions and place them in the Dentrix electronic health record (EHR), along with descriptions of the lesions.

Treatment:

Other: Imaging using intraoral cameras