Design of a randomized, non-inferiority trial to evaluate the reliability of videoconferencing for remote consultation of diabetes

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fatehi, Farhad ^a,b   Martin Khan, Melinda ^a   Gray, Leonard C ^a   Russell, Anthony W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Remote consultation; Telemedicine; Video consultation; Video teleconsultation; Video visit; Videoconferencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HUMANS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 84893738437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-14-11     Document Type: Article

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