Virtual and Physical Health Assessments and Treatment Plans

NCT ID: NCT03947905

Last Updated: 2021-08-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2022-12-31

Brief Summary

The aim of the current study is to compare virtual clinic visits (i.e., real-time, face-to-face visits conducted over the internet with tablet devices) to actual physical clinic visits. After both types of visits (virtual versus physical) physicians will be asked to classify patients into low, moderate or high risk for a vascular intervention. It is hypothesized that there will be good agreement between classifications made after the virtual visits as compared to those made after physical visits. That is, virtual visit classifications will be as good as those made after physical visits.

Detailed Description

Patient dissatisfaction can increase because of the complexities associated with navigating modern health care systems. It is easy to speculate that some of this dissatisfaction is associated with travel, wait times and other issues that arise during routine clinic visits. The authors of recent studies have demonstrated that it is possible and feasible to conduct many routine visits remotely. It is our belief that virtual health assessments and treatment plans (VHAT) conducted remotely can be as effective, perhaps be more efficient and increase patient satisfaction when compared to regular physical health assessments and treatment plans (PHAT). Physicians want to provide optimal health care; however, in geographically isolated areas such as some locations in West Virginia that can be a challenge. It seems reasonable to believe that monitoring patients with telehealth technology, collecting on-going real time data and conducting VHAT can provide high quality health care for patients. It can also help to classify health risk, increase patient and medical staff satisfaction, decrease staff time for visits, while at the same time increase the efficiency of the follow-up process. The investigators plan to compare the physician assessments and future treatment plans made using VHAT to those made after PHAT. It is believed that VHAT assessments will be in agreement with those made with PHAT.

Conditions

Vascular Diseases

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Type of visit

Single arm, non-randomized crossover design. All patients will receive both types of visits virtual and physical, and after assessments are made, participants will be classified by physicians into low, moderate or high risk for intervention.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Virtual visit

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Type of visit

Interventions

Virtual visit

Type of visit

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

Physical visit

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

-Patients referred to and scheduled for an initial visit at our Vascular Center of Excellence (VCOE).

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients that are deemed urgent cases by the VCOE, and scheduled within two weeks for the initial clinic visit.
• Patients who are scheduled to have the placement of an arteriovenous (AV) fistula at the time of the initial clinic visit.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Sarah & Pauline Maier Foundation, Inc.

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

WVCTSI

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

CAMC Health System

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Albeir Mousa

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Albeir Y Mousa, MD

Role: CONTACT

amousa@hsc.wvu.edu

3043884875

Mike Broce, BA

Role: CONTACT

Mike.broce@camc.org

3043889923

Other Identifiers

19-558

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id