Telemedicine Consultation in Trauma and Orthopedic (TeleTO)

Donetsk National Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Congenital Bone and Joint Abnormalities; Joint Diseases; Trauma; Orthopedic Surgery Complications

Treatments: Procedure: Telemedicine consultation; Procedure: Treatment plan

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00815243

1-2007-2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether telemedicine consultations (lead by standard scheme)allows to increase quality of anatomical and functional outcomes and improve clinical work-flow at patients with acute bone and joint trauma, hip pathology and congenital orthopedics abnormalities.

Full description

Levels of bad outcomes, untimely death and disability due to acute trauma, specific orthopedic pathology (congenital, coxarthrosis) and non-efficient organisation of clinical work-flow are still very high (especially in rural areas). Standard telemedicine work stations (with special protocols and manuals for original approach to telemedicine activity organisation and management) will be placed into small municipal and rural hospitals. Telemedicine links will be established between 3rd level Trauma&Ortho center and remote sites. Synchronous and asynchronous teleconsultations will be perform for help in evidence-based timely clinical decisions, continual support of clinical wor-flow and treatment process.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of injury of locomotorium (isolated or polytrauma)
• Clinical diagnosis of bone and joint congenital abnormalities or intranatal injury
• Clinical diagnosis of knee, hip arthrosis
• Clinical diagnosis of complication of surgery (unstable, fracture of construction etc)
• Diagnosis is already present
• Primary decision of clinical strategy have to be done (transportation, level of care, method of treatment, surgery peculiarities)
• Indications for teleconsultations determined by physician

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis is not present
• Patient's self-request for teleconsultations
• No reliable feed-back with attending physician

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 3 patient groups

Telemed

Experimental group

Description:

Group of trauma\&orthopedic patients - for determination of clinical strategy and treatment plan telemedicine will be used

Treatment:

Procedure: Treatment plan

Procedure: Telemedicine consultation

InternalControl

Active Comparator group

Description:

Group of trauma\&orthopedic patients from 3rd level trauma center - for determination of clinical strategy and treatment plan usual clinical approaches will be used

Treatment:

Procedure: Treatment plan

ExternalControl

Active Comparator group

Description:

Group of trauma\&orthopedic patients from 1-2rd level trauma centers (in rural and small municipal hospitals) - for determination of clinical strategy and treatment plan personal arriving of the expert by the car (so-called Urgent Expert Care) will be used

Treatment:

Procedure: Treatment plan