Pilot trial of telemedicine in urology: Video vs. telephone consultations.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the past year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person clinical activities have been drastically restricted, driving the already growing interest in the use of telemedicine in the urban setting to reduce unnecessary commute. Therefore, there has been a rapid shift to telephone and video consultations in outpatient practice. We sought to conduct a pilot trial to establish feasibility and acceptability of video consultations as an alternative to telephone consultations in urology patients to inform the design of a future randomized controlled trial.

Methods

We conducted a single-center, prospective, non-randomized pilot trial comparing telephone consultations (TC) vs. video consultations (VC) for urology outpatient visits. Two patient questionnaires were used t

SUBMITTER: Nguyen DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9054330 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature