Comparing Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation Via Telemedicine Versus in Person for Surgical Patients at Moffitt Cancer Center

Completed

• Conditions: Prostate Cancer; Patient Satisfaction; Gynecologic Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: Telemedicine; Behavioral: In Person Visit

• Registration Number: NCT05065944
• Lead Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Brief Summary

This is a randomized controlled trial of patients scheduled for hysterectomy or prostatectomy surgeries who undergo a pre-anesthesia evaluation at Moffitt Cancer Center PreAnesthesia Testing (PAT) clinic. Traditionally, patients who met certain criteria based on type of surgery or comorbidities would undergo an in-person evaluation in our clinic. In order to make our patient's care more convenient and accessible, investigators have introduced telemedicine evaluation for a certain subset of patients meeting specific criteria. Investigators aim with this randomized trial to investigate the hypothesis that telemedicine pre-anesthesia evaluation is non-inferior to in-person evaluation from the standpoint of day of surgery cancellation rate.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-23
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-04
• Study Start: 2021-11-16
• Primary Completion: 2023-08-19
• Study Completion: 2024-08-09
• Status Verified: 2025-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-21
• Last Update Posted: 2025-05-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 106

Inclusion Criteria

• Able to speak and read English
• Able to provide signed and dated informed consent form
• Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
• Presurgical patients at Moffitt Cancer Center scheduled to undergo any type of hysterectomy/salpingo-oophorectomy or prostatectomy surgeries.
• Possesses appropriate equipment (i.e., computer, tablet, smartphone) to undergo telemedicine evaluation.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with documented or observable significant cognitive barriers, hearing, or speech impairment. Examples include a patient who is not alert or oriented, who is unable to sign his or her own surgical consent due to cognitive issues or who cannot understand and repeat back to study coordinator reason for study. If these barriers will not be an issue for a video phone call and can be reasonably accommodated, we will do so. However, our telemedicine technology is still very basic, and these patients may be more comfortable communicating with providers and expressing their needs during an in-person visit
• Surgery 3 days or less away from clinic visit. As in-person assessment is the gold standard, we need to allow some time in case a patient cannot work the technology for a telemedicine visit or an issue comes up where visit needs to be converted to in-person.
• Out of state patients as there are currently medical licensing concerns with conducting telemedicine on patients physically located out of state during the visit.
• Determined to be ineligible for surgery during evaluation

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation: Telemedicine	Telemedicine	Pre-Anesthesia evaluation conducted remotely via video conferencing
Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation: In person	In Person Visit	Pre-Anesthesia evaluation conducted in person

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of eligible patients that elect to participate	Up to day 26	Acceptability of pre-anesthesia telemedicine evaluation will be measured as ≥ 50% of eligible patients consent to participate and ≥ 70% submit exit survey.
Percentage of participants satisfied with telemedicine visit	Up to day 26	Acceptability will be measured as ≥ 70% strongly agreeing or agreeing with the statement that they were satisfied with their telemedicine visit on an exit survey.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evaluation of pre-anesthesia evaluation via telemedicine vs in-person	Up to day 30	Efficacy of pre-anesthesia evaluation via telemedicine will be determined by day of surgery and 48 hours before surgery cancellation rate (number of cancelled appointments divided by number of scheduled appointments).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Moffitt Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Tampa, Florida, United States