NCT05019144Completed
Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention
A Novel Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention (TOBI) for Pediatric Burn-injured Patients and Their Caregivers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Because burn patients and their caregivers often live long distances from regional burn centers, access to expert burn care is limited, resulting in a negative effect on adherence to treatment and a higher risk of wound complication. A novel smartphone application synchronized with a web portal for providers, called the Telemedicine Optimized Burn Intervention (TOBI), was recently developed to enable burn experts to direct burn wound care while the patient and caregiver are home through text messaging, image transfer, and video-conferencing. The goal of the present study is evaluate TOBI compared to face-to-face care as usual for pediatric patients/caregivers visiting a burn center. This study will also assess the feasibility of conducting a larger-scale clinical trial in several burn centers. The app will allow the physician and patient/caregivers to make instant decisions regarding treatment, allowing for "turn on a dime" treatment decisions, rather than having the patients and families wait for scheduled clinic appointments, often hours away from home. This "on demand" medical care takes an innovative approach to increasing access to burn experts through smartphone technology and addressing adherence to prescribed treatment by increasing communication between provider and patients.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 130 (actual)
- First submitted
- 18 Aug 2021
- Start date
- Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
- NCT number
- NCT05019144
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 130
- From Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, Mar 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other
- There are no exclusion criteria. All participants who meet inclusion criteria would be eligible to participate in the study.
Who the study is looking for
- Caregiver parents and their children (patients) will be considered as participants and will be eligible for enrollment if:
- the patient (child) is \< 18 years of age; caregiver age \>18 years of age
- the patient is diagnosed with a partial thickness burn between \<1% TBSA - 20% TBSA by a pediatric burn surgeon;
- the patient's burn is being treated with advanced burn dressing therapy (e.g., Silvadene™, Polysporin™, Acticoat™, Mepilex™, or Mepitel™);
- the patient's burn is evaluated by the MUSC burn team within 48 hours of injury;
- the patient's caregiver (parent or legal guardian) is able to speak, hear, and understand English, as determined during study recruitment procedures;
- the caregiver owns and is capable of using a smart device (an Android or iOS smartphone) with permission to download TOBI app from the Google Store or AppStore;
- able to comply with outpatient clinic visits.
Age in the registry: 0 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Unknown status |
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