Online Question-answering and Conventional Consultation With a Dermatologist

Completed

• Conditions: Skin Diseases
• Interventions: Procedure: observation

• Registration Number: NCT01969422
• Lead Sponsor: University of Zurich

Brief Summary

Comparison of online question-answering system and conventional consultation for dermatological questions:

* same diagnosis?

* same information, which had been collected?

* same recommendations about treatment?

* what were the relevant differences of the two?

Detailed Description

mainly, ICD codes and dermatological diagnosis codes according to the AAD will be used.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-21
• Study First Posted: 2013-10-25
• Study Start: 2013-11
• Primary Completion: 2014-09
• Study Completion: 2014-09
• Status Verified: 2014-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-12-02
• Last Update Posted: 2014-12-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
observation group	observation	observation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Correlation of online and clinical diagnosis by Spearman's Rho	physical consultation date

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Zurich, Department of Dermatology; 🇨🇭 Zurich, ZH, Switzerland