Telemedicine in the Generals Practitioners Office

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title: Pilotonderzoek Naar Het Gebruik Van Telemedicine Bij Het Beoordelen Van Het Benauwde Kind in de Huisartsenpraktijk English: The Use of Telemedicine in the General Practitioners Office for a Child With Respiratory Symptoms: a Pilot Study

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Pediatrician does physical examination through telemedicine and in real life to see whether the telemedicine consultation corresponds with the real life examination.

Goal is to determine:

1. Check practical feasability

2. Check whether there are no great objections for a larger study (ie. in case telemedicine consultation is much more unreliable to do a physical examination a larger study is deemed unsafe)

Clinical Trial Description

40 pediatric patients seen by a general practitioner (GP) whom the GP has referred or wants to refer to a pediatrician for clinical evaluation are included in this study.

Study is designed in 2 parts. Part 1 is at the emergency room in the hospital Part 2 is at the GPs office

The pediatrician sees the patient through a telemedicine consultation. Then sees the patient in real life to see if what was seen during telemedicine corresponds with the real life consultation.

With telemedicine and real life consultation the pediatrician rates the patient as either a candidate to go home or to be admitted. With the telemedicine consultation there is also an option "in doubt: i want to see the patient in real life".

Also with both telemedicine and real life examination the pediatrician scores the patient using the respiratory observation scale (Siew et al, 2016)

Goal is to:

1. Check practical feasability

2. Check whether there are no great objections for a larger study (ie. in case telemedicine consultation is much harder to do a physical examination ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma
• Bronchial Hyperreactivity
• Bronchiolitis
• Croup
• Croup; False
• Pneumonia
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn

• NCT number: NCT04168554
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Rijnstate Hospital
• Contact: Mendel Ottow, Drs, MD
• Phone: +31880058888
• Email: mottow@rijnstate.nl
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: December 2019
• Completion date: November 2020