John D. Whited|Erin M. Warshaw|Karen Edison|Kush Kapur|Lizy Thottapurathu|Srihari Raju|Bethany Cook|Holly Engasser|Samantha Pullen|P Parks|Tom Sindowski|Danuta Motyka|Rodney Brown|Thomas Möritz|Santanu K. Datta|Mary Margaret Chren|Lucinda Marty|Domenic J. Reda
Effect of Store and Forward Teledermatology on Quality of Life
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital
although research quality life dermatologic conditions well represented literature information teledermatologys effect quality life virtually absentto determine effect store forward teledermatology quality lifetwosite parallelgroup superiority randomized controlled trialdermatology clinics affiliated sites primary care 2 us department veterans affairs medical facilitiespatients referred dermatology clinic randomly assigned stratified site teledermatology conventional consultation process among 392 patients met inclusion criteria randomized 326 completed allocated intervention included analysisstore forward teledermatology digital images standardized history conventional textbased consultation processes used manage dermatology consultations patients followed 9 monthsthe primary end point change skindex16 scores skinspecific qualityoflife instrument baseline 9 months secondary end point change skindex16 scores baseline 3 monthspatients randomization groups demonstrated clinically significant improvement skindex16 scores baseline 9 months significant difference randomization group p 66 composite score significant difference skindex16 scores randomization group baseline 3 months found p 39 composite scorecompared conventional consultation process store forward teledermatology result statistically significant difference skinrelated quality life 3 9 months referralclinicaltrialsgov identifier nct00488293