Children who visit a pediatric emergency department unscheduled
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Experimental group consists of the telemedicine doctors (specialists assessing the urgency of a pediatric acute case by using the telemedical triage procedure).
A video conferencing system wi
Sponsors
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Institut für Community Medicine, Abteilung Versorgungsepidemiologie und Community Health
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 Years to 17 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children who visit the pediatric emergency department
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Children in need of immediate medical care
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Consistency of the urgency assessment by the doctor on duty in the hospital and the telemedicine doctor | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| How often and in what cases the telemedical triage system is used, what are the frequencies of the different grades of urgencies, which diagnoses are proposed and what therapy recommendations are given? What is the acceptance of the telemedical triage system among physicians, nurses, patients and parents? Does the telemedicine situation have an impact on the medical decision about the diagnosis and therapy of the cases? What (technical and non-technical) barriers and opportunities for improvement can be identified? | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAngelika Beyer, M.Sc.
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Institut für Community Medicine, Abteilung Versorgungsepidemiologie und Community Health
Outcome results
None listed