Quality of care for remote orthopaedic consultations using telemedicine: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decentralised services using outreach clinics or modern technology are methods to reduce both patient transports and costs to the healthcare system. Telemedicine consultations via videoconference are one such modality. Before new technologies are implemented, it is important to investigate both the quality of care given and the economic impact from the use of this new technology. The aim of this clinical trial was to study the quality of planned remote orthopaedic consultations by help of videoconference.

Method

We performed a randomised controlled trial (RCT) with two parallel groups: video-assisted remote consultations at a regional medical centre (RMC) as an intervention versus standard consultation in the orthopaedic outpatient clinic at the University Hospita

SUBMITTER: Buvik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5017045 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature