Satellite-supplementation of Medical Outreach Clinics: a Feasibility Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- Mayo Clinic
- 入组人数
- 144
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Clinical Diagnoses
研究概览
简要总结
Much of the basic general medical care and chronic disease management in rural Honduras comes from groups of volunteers setting up temporary clinics run by volunteers. These clinics, also known as brigades, or medical missions, are often criticized for their lack of quality and the lack of follow-up, both of which stem, in part, from understaffing with volunteer physicians. This study is designed to assess if it is feasible, safe, and acceptable to treat patients in short-term mobile medical clinics in rural Honduras using US physicians connected with patients by videoconference.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- Triple (Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Able to give informed consent
- •Non-emergent medical complaints
- •At least 18 yrs in age
排除标准
- •Pregnancy
- •Mental Disability
结局指标
主要结局
Clinical Diagnoses
时间窗: Same Day as clinic visit (less than 6 hours)
The diagnoses resulting from the two physician visits will be compared and a cohen's kappa statistic will be calculated for diagnoses between the visits.
Recommended clinical treatments
时间窗: Same Day as clinic visit (less than 6 hours)
After each of a patient's two physician visits, the physician's resulting recommended treatments will be gathered for comparison between the two visits.
次要结局
- Patient opinions of physician interactions(Immediately following physician interactions (less than 6 hours))
- Volunteer opinions of physician-patient interactions(immediately following experience with the clinic (Less than 48 hours))
- Physician opinions of patient interactions(immediately following volunteer activities with the clinic (less than 48 hours))