Pros and Cons of Telemedicine in Diagnosis and Management

• Conditions: the Study Focus on the Uses of Telephone and Other New Technology in Medicine, Diagnosis and Treatment

• Registration Number: NCT04752553
• Lead Sponsor: Heba A Yassa

Brief Summary

Telemedicine "healing at a distance" Telemedicine has many advantages especially in time of pandemics for both doctors and patients, low cost and easily accessibility. Pandemics especially COVID 19 has radically change the medical team thoughts about the telemedicine. It can decrease the exposure of the medical team to infection and expected by some of the medical team to be very beneficial if done in good and legal manner. Although, telemedicine has many advantages, also has many disadvantages and medicolegal problems, breakdown in the relationship between medical teams and patients, mis diagnosis or wrong treatment. There are many legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine.

Detailed Description

Telemedicine "healing at a distance" Telemedicine has many advantages especially in time of pandemics for both doctors and patients, low cost and easily accessibility. Pandemics especially COVID 19 has radically change the medical team thoughts about the telemedicine. It can decrease the exposure of the medical team to infection and expected by some of the medical team to be very beneficial if done in good and legal manner. Although, telemedicine has many advantages, also has many disadvantages and medicolegal problems, breakdown in the relationship between medical teams and patients, mis diagnosis or wrong treatment. There are many legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine. These include the medical responsibilities, the confidentiality and privacy of the patients can not be maintained, the jurisdictional problems. Shortage of medical practitioners and specialists, shortage of internet facilities, low education levels in some patients all are problems facing the telemedicine in developing countries. The evolution of telemedicine poses a series of legal problems ranging from the profiles on the subject of authorization and accreditation to those concerning the protection of patient confidentiality, the definition and solution of which, in the absence of specific regulatory provisions, is mainly left to the assessment of compatibility of the practices adopted so far, with the general regulatory framework.

This research will be done to clarify the role of telemedicine, and if it has a share hand or the upper hand if compared with traditional medicine.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-09
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-12
• Study Start: 2021-03-09
• Status Verified: 2021-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-07-19
• Last Update Posted: 2021-07-20
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-10
• Study Completion: 2022-02-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1000

Inclusion Criteria

• doctors of all specialty
• Patients
• police man and who work in law

Exclusion Criteria

• No exclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- To provide an overview about the pros and cons of the telemedicine in Egypt especially in the period of the COVID 19 pandemic.	6 months	describe the pros and cons of the telemedicine
- To assess the impact of telehealth on clinical outcomes from the view of the doctors, patients.	6 months	list the impact of telehealth and telemedicine on doctors and patients

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- To evaluate the opinion of the law and the malpractice problems that can face doctors due to the use of telemedicine.	one year	List the law opinion about the telemedicine

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

heba Yassa; 🇪🇬 Assiut, Egypt