This study evaluates patient perceptions around quality of care through telemedicine in neuro-oncology. Studying questionnaires related to perceptions quality of care through telemedicine in patients with brain cancer may help doctors to improve the delivery of care through this modality.
Patients with a CNS tumors: this includes patients with primary brain tumors, brain metastases, and leptomeningeal disease
Established patients with a follow up encounter with Neuro-Oncology at the Brain and Spine Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; this encounter can be
An in-person visit
A telemedicine appointment
Encounter occurred with the assistance of official language translation support
Patients with telephone encounters (without interactive video)
New patient or consult visits
Neither patient nor caregiver present during the visit are available or able to answer survey questions
Patients with encounters at the Brain and Spine Center between 4/20/2020 and either (1) 8/30/2020 or (2) date that the state of emergency secondary to the COVID-19 pandemic is declared terminated in the United States of America- whichever date is earlier
Cohort
Prospective
Electronic Health Record Review
Other interventionReview of medical chart
Survey Administration
Other interventionComplete survey
Survey response to question 6 of the quality of care survey ("I felt I received good medical care during this encounter")
Survey responses will be summarized by ordinal category as counts with percentages, separately by group. Will separately estimate the proportion of each ordinal level of each group with 95% confidence interval.
Quality of Care Survey
Will separately estimate the proportion of each ordinal level of each group with 95% confidence interval.
Patients and clinical characteristics
Differences between groups will be assessed by 2-sample 2-sided t-test and Mann-Whitney test, Fisher's exact test, or chi-square test.
Interactive time spent during visit
Will be summarized by group per mean, median, standard deviation, and range. Differences between groups will be assessed by t-test and Mann-Whitney test.
Time from visit order placement to visit occurring
Will be summarized by group per mean, median, standard deviation, and range. Differences between groups will be assessed by t-test and Mann-Whitney test.
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