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Telemedicine (Virtual Clinic) Effectively Delivers the Required Health-care Service to Pediatric Day-case Surgical Patients in the Current Era of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Non-randomized Controlled Study


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Children often get sick, either from congenital or acquired lesions. The Covid-19 associated regulatory precautions had made the process of seeking medical advice getting more difficult and much challenging. In this article, we aim to present our experience in utilization of telemedicine, specifically the virtual clinic via video consultation, in sorting and guiding the pediatric surgical patients, evaluate the effectiveness, and document its results in giving a convenient solution for this heavily distressing problem. Materials and Methods: This prospective study addressed the utilization of telemedicine, specifically the virtual clinic via video consultation in the field of pediatric surgery in the current era of Covid-19 pandemic. Data recorded for analysis included demographic data, condition distribution (system/body region affected), conversation duration, ultimate fate of the consultations. Service was evaluated by on-line patient questionnaire ranging from 1 to 5. Study was carried out at 3 pediatric surgery tertiary centers (Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital in Riyadh, Alyamamah Obstetric & Children's hospital in Riyadh, and Al-Azhar University hospitals in Cairo) on pediatric surgical patients, in the period from June 2020 to July 2021, in comparison to the statistics of the period from June 2019 till June 2020. All patients' guardians enrolled in the study had electronically signed a written informed consent before commencement of a video consultation. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board and ethics committee (Registration number: H7D4-2020-0051E). The main objective was to assess the efficacy utilization of telemedicine (mainly virtual clinic via video consultation) in sorting and correct guiding of children with surgical issues. Primary outcome measurements included attendance rate, cancellation rate, re-admission rate, and parent/patients' satisfaction. Secondary outcome measurements included time interval from appointment request till the actual encounter, encounter duration, and fate of the video conversations. All patients are requested to register in the MOH registry (including ID and phone numbers, address, & e-mail), and are given instructions on how to use the certified applications to organize their access to the service via approved applications at any time. Also, on-call pediatric surgery specialists were ready all the time. Telemedicine (virtual clinic via video consultation), between a well-trained expert pediatric surgeon and a motivated child's caregiver, effectively bridges the gap caused by the regulatory precautions mandated by the current Covid-19 pandemic. Statistical analysis: It will be performed with IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp. Data will be presented as mean, standard deviation, number & percentage, using Chi-squared test (X2) for qualitative data. The significance level will be set at P > 0.05. - Discussion will focus on demonstrating and achieving the main objective that was to assess the efficacy utilization of telemedicine (mainly virtual clinic via video consultation) in sorting and correct guiding of children with surgical issues. Points of discussion will include attendance rate, cancellation rate, re-admission rate, and parent/patients' satisfaction, fate of the video conversations. ;


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NCT number NCT04990570
Study type Observational [Patient Registry]
Source Al-Azhar University
Contact
Status Completed
Phase
Start date June 1, 2019
Completion date July 31, 2021

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