Online Question-answering and Conventional Consultation With a Dermatologist

Comparison of online question-answering system and conventional consultation for dermatological questions:

* same diagnosis? * same information, which had been collected? * same recommendations about treatment? * what were the relevant differences of the two?

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Key information

Conditions

Skin Diseases Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Age range

1 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

University Hospital Zurich, Department of Dermatology

Zurich, Canton of Zurich, 8091, Switzerland

About this study

mainly, ICD codes and dermatological diagnosis codes according to the AAD will be used.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

a conventional dermatological consultation after a question in the online question-answering system.

Exclusion criteria

-power of veto after information of patient

Treatment and study plan

observation

Procedure

intervention is the contact with online question answering serice ad subseudd

Primary outcomes

Correlation of online and clinical diagnosis by Spearman's Rho

Time frame: physical consultation date

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Zurich

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2013
Primary completion: 2014
Study completion: 2014
First posted: Oct 25, 2013
Registry last updated: Dec 3, 2014

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