Manel Cremades, Georgina Ferret, David Parés, Jordi Navinés, Franc Espin, Fernando Pardo, Albert Caballero, Marta Viciano, Joan Francesc Julian
A prospective randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted in 200 patients to compare conventional vs telemedicine follow-up in the outpatient clinics. The primary outcome was the feasibility of telemedicine follow-up and the secondary outcomes were its clinical impact and patient satisfaction.
Telemedicine is a good complementary service to facilitate follow-up management in selected patients from a General Surgery department.