Status:
COMPLETED
Electronic Referral and Booking of Outpatient Day Case Surgery Compared With Traditional Referral Routines.
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital of North Norway
Conditions:
Referral and Consultation
Telemedicine
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
We want in this study to investigate the cost-effectiveness and waiting time of direct electronic referral and booking of outpatient surgery compared to the traditional patient pathway where the patie...
Detailed Description
Waiting time from referral to day case outpatient surgery is unacceptable long. In Norway it is as much as 48 weeks for common conditions like gallstones, inguinal hernia and sinus pilonidalis. Electr...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients were eligible if they were diagnosed by their GP for an inguinal hernia, sinus pilonidalis or gallstone disease which require surgical treatment.
Exclusion
- Patients with medical conditions making them unfit for outpatient surgery admitted to the surgical department prior to surgery are not eligible
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00692497
Start Date
October 1 2010
End Date
December 1 2012
Last Update
January 27 2016
Active Locations (1)
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Norwegian Centre of Telemedicine
Tromsø, Norway