Rationalization of the Treatment Pathway of Patient Suffering From Rare Skin Disease With Telemedicine

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Skin Disease
• Interventions: Procedure: telemedicine

• Registration Number: NCT02465476
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse

Brief Summary

The investigators want to demonstrate that a new organization with telemedicine could rationalize the treatment pathway of patient suffering from rare skin disease. A diagnosis and a personalised treatment pathway could be performed before the consultation in the hospital.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-01-06
• Study First Submitted: 2015-04-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-06-04
• Study First Posted: 2015-06-08
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-30
• Study Completion: 2018-05-30
• Status Verified: 2018-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-11-19
• Last Update Posted: 2018-11-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 212

Inclusion Criteria

• New patients suffering from a rare skin disease whatever pathology or age, which needs a take-over by this centre
• Or patients already take-over by the centre but lost to follow-up for more than one year
• Patients (and/or parents) who give their consents
• Patients (and/or parents) able to fill in questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant or breast-feeding women.
• Patients subject to a judicial safeguard order
• Patients who need an emergency take-over
• Patients followed by a doctor who does not have a computerized system or refuse to send data via the secured messaging

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
telemedicine	telemedicine	patient who will have telemedicine

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of hospital visits	6 months	Interest of a procedure of telemedicine on the organization of the treatment pathway of patients affected by rare skin diseases in terms of change of the number of visit in hospital.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Improvement of the treatment pathway and its organization	6 months	Traceability in the information system by composite criteria : number of completed application forms, number of meeting per month, number of meeting a month, number of patients treated a month, time dedicated to the logistical coordination (collection by sheets of weekly time) and number of new patients per month.
Change of the cost related to the patient care (direct and indirect).	6 months	Composite criteria with number of consultations and hospitalizations, number of visit in hospital and number of days of work and school absenteeism.
management of time by the medical personal.	6 months	collection by sheets of weekly time
Satisfaction of the patient	6 months	questionnaire of satisfaction Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF36)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UHToulouse; 🇫🇷 Toulouse, France