NCT05065944Completed
Comparing Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation Via Telemedicine Versus in Person for Surgical Patients at Moffitt Cancer Center
A Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation Remotely Via Telemedicine Versus in Person for Surgical Patients at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a randomized controlled trial of patients scheduled for hysterectomy or prostatectomy surgeries who undergo a pre-anesthesia evaluation at Moffitt Cancer Center PreAnesthesia Testing (PAT) clinic. Traditionally, patients who met certain criteria based on type of surgery or comorbidities would undergo an in-person evaluation in our clinic. In order to make our patient's care more convenient and accessible, investigators have introduced telemedicine evaluation for a certain subset of patients meeting specific criteria. Investigators aim with this randomized trial to investigate the hypothesis that telemedicine pre-anesthesia evaluation is non-inferior to in-person evaluation from the standpoint of day of surgery cancellation rate.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 106 (actual)
- First submitted
- 23 Sept 2021
- Start date
- 16 Nov 2021
- Primary completion date
- 19 Aug 2023
- Lead sponsor
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
- Diseases
- Prostate cancer
- NCT number
- NCT05065944
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 106
- From 16 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 19 Aug 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Surgery 3 days or less away from clinic visit. As in-person assessment is the gold standard, we need to allow some time in case a patient cannot work the technology for a telemedicine visit or an issue comes up where visit needs to be converted to in-person.
- Determined to be ineligible for surgery during evaluation
Other illness
- Patients with documented or observable significant cognitive barriers, hearing, or speech impairment. Examples include a patient who is not alert or oriented, who is unable to sign his or her own surgical consent due to cognitive issues or who cannot understand and repeat back to study coordinator reason for study. If these barriers will not be an issue for a video phone call and can be reasonably accommodated, we will do so. However, our telemedicine technology is still very basic, and these patients may be more comfortable communicating with providers and expressing their needs during an in-person visit
Other
- Out of state patients as there are currently medical licensing concerns with conducting telemedicine on patients physically located out of state during the visit.
Who the study is looking for
- Able to speak and read English
- Able to provide signed and dated informed consent form
- Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
- Presurgical patients at Moffitt Cancer Center scheduled to undergo any type of hysterectomy/salpingo-oophorectomy or prostatectomy surgeries.
- Possesses appropriate equipment (i.e., computer, tablet, smartphone) to undergo telemedicine evaluation.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moffitt Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Unknown status |
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