Trial reportEBioMedicine2015
Telephone Consultation as a Substitute for Routine Out-patient Face-to-face Consultation for Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Randomised Controlled Trial and Economic Evaluation.
Trial report in EBioMedicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02319798 (Telephone Consultation as a Substitute for Routine Out-patient Face-to-face Consultation for Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Telephone Consultation as a Substitute for Routine Out-patient Face-to-face Consultation for Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Randomised Controlled Trial and Economic Evaluation.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telemonitoring in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using E-health Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2023Pooled it
- Remote care through telehealth for people with inflammatory bowel disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Role of Telemedicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Telemonitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Findings from the TIGE-Rus Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Investigation of Appropriate Telemedicine for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Article
- Implementation of values-based healthcare in inflammatory bowel disease-a review.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2026Review
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- Association between virtual visits and central line-associated complications in adult patients receiving home parenteral nutrition: A retrospective cohort study.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2025Article
- Synchronous virtual care in children's health care: a scoping review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Mobile monitoring system detects the disease activity pattern and shows the association with clinical outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed Crohn's disease.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Leveraging Virtual Technology to Conduct Clinical Trials in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2023Article
- The Reliability and Quality of Short Videos as a Source of Dietary Guidance for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Cross-sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Promoting psycho-social wellbeing for engaging inflammatory bowel disease patients in their care: an Italian consensus statement.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- Telemedicine and Integrated Multidisciplinary Care for Pediatric IBD Patients: A Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Applying Telemedicine to Multidisciplinary Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A telephone assessment and advice service within an ED physiotherapy clinic: a single-site quality improvement cohort study.Archives of physiotherapy · 2021Article
- Changing to remote management of a community heart failure population during COVID-19 - Clinician and patient perspectives'.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2020Article
- The medium, the message and the measure: a theory-driven review on the value of telehealth as a patient-facing digital health innovation.Health economics review · 2019Review
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence for the use of telephone consultation in childhood inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is lacking. We aimed to assess the effectiveness and cost consequences of telephone consultation compared with the usual out-patient face-to-face consultation for young people with IBD.
methodsWe conducted a randomised-controlled trial in Manchester, UK, between July 12, 2010 and June 30, 2013. Young people (aged 8-16 years) with IBD were randomized to receive telephone consultation or face-to-face consultation for 24 months. The primary outcome measure was the paediatric IBD-specific IMPACT quality of life (QOL) score at 12 months. Secondary outcome measures included patient satisfaction with consultations, disease course, anthropometric measures, proportion of consultations attended, duration of consultations, and costs to the UK National Health Service (NHS). Analysis was by intention to treat. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT02319798.
findingsEighty six patients were randomised to receive either telephone consultation (n = 44) or face-to-face consultation (n = 42). Baseline characteristics of the two groups were well balanced. At 12 months, there was no evidence of difference in QOL scores (estimated treatment effect in favour of the telephone consultation group was 5.7 points, 95% CI - 2.9 to 14.3; p = 0.19). Mean consultation times were 9.8 min (IQR 8 to 12.3) for telephone consultation, and 14.3 min (11.6 to 17.0) for face-to-face consultation with an estimated reduction (95% CI) of 4.3 (2.8 to 5.7) min in consultation times (p < 0.001). Telephone consultation had a mean cost of UK£35.41 per patient consultation compared with £51.12 for face-face consultation, difference £15.71 (95% CI 11.8-19.6; P < 0.001).
interpretationWe found no suggestion of inferiority of telephone consultation compared with face-to-face consultation with regard to improvements in QOL scores, and telephone consultation reduced consultation time and NHS costs. Telephone consultation is a cost-effective alternative to face-to-face consultation for the routine outpatient follow-up of children and adolescents with IBD.
fundingResearch for Patient Benefit Programme, UK National Institute for Health Research.
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