Teleconsultation in Ambulatory Care in France

NCT05311241 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 001
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 84,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Teleconsultation is a telemedicine medical act carried out remotely via information and communication technologies. This medical procedure has been legal in France since 2010 and reimbursed by the National Health Insurance under certain conditions since 2018. In 2020, following the COVID-19 epidemic, the lockdowns and the extension of the scope of financial coverage, 17 million teleconsultations have been reimbursed. To date, few scientific studies have been published in France to precisely describe the use of the service giving access to outpatient teleconsultation, in particular since the major increase in activity linked to the COVID-19 epidemic. The objective is to describe the use of the service giving access to outpatient teleconsultation carried out in France by teleconsultation companies and compare the use of the teleconsultation service according to the medical density of the territory.

Conditions

Telehealth; Telemedicine; Teleconsultation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Rate of patients without a treating doctor

  Through the study completion at the time of the teleconsultation, average 1 day

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients registered with a teleconsultation company member of the LET participating to the study with at least one teleconsultation during the study period.

You may qualify if:

• Patient who used the teleconsultation access service with one of the telemedicine companies member of the LET participating in the study
• Patient residing in France according to the written information (address and or postal code) given at registration to the telemedicine company
• Teleconsultation service used between August 1, 2021 and November 30, 2021
• Teleconsultation service used in the context of outpatient care (hospitals excluded)
• Teleconsultation service used for a teleconsultation with a doctor registered with the Medical Doctors Council in France

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Les Entreprises de Télémédecine: lead

Study Sites (1)

Les Entreprises de Télémédecine

Paris, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Ohannessian R, Yaghobian S, Simon R, Poinsot-Chaize G, Hiridjee S, Gleize JC, Pierme JP, Amar N, Merlaud C, Maudoux C, Zerah B, Lescure F, Salomon J. Evaluating the Impact of Teleconsultations on Access to Ambulatory Primary Care in Medically Underserved Areas: A National Observational Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study. Telemed J E Health. 2024 Feb;30(2):570-578. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2023.0274. Epub 2023 Aug 29.

  PMID: 37643308 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Julie Salomon, MD

  Qare

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 25, 2022
• First Posted: April 5, 2022
• Study Start: February 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: March 21, 2022
• Study Completion: March 21, 2022
• Last Updated: April 5, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (1)